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Publication details [#66187]

Kurhila, Salla and Inkeri Lehtimaja. 2019. Dealing with numbers: Nurses informing doctors and patients about test results. Discourse Studies 21 (2) : 180–198.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
conversational analysis | doctor-patient conversation | health | hospital | information processing | medical conversation | patient | testing
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
Journal WWW
www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

When nurses debate test results with their patients, they typically employ qualitative descriptions, whereas when they talk with doctors, the typical turn includes numeric information.