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P. Ley
Researcher at University of Liverpool
Publications - 28
Citations - 2662
P. Ley is an academic researcher from University of Liverpool. The author has contributed to research in topics: Recall & Patient satisfaction. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 28 publications receiving 2578 citations. Previous affiliations of P. Ley include University of Sydney.
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Communicating with Patients: Improving Communication, Satisfaction and Compliance
TL;DR: Patients' satisfaction patients' understanding of what they are told memory for medical information relationships between understanding, memory, satisfaction and compliance techniques for increasing patients' recall and understanding.
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Satisfaction, compliance and communication
TL;DR: It is concluded that dissatisfaction with communication remains widespread, as does lack of compliance with medical advice, and theoretical approaches to communication and compliance should be used to direct future research.
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Memory for medical information
TL;DR: The frequency with which patients fail to recall advice presented by their doctors is discribed, and the amount forgotten is shown to be a linear function of the amount presented, to be correlated with the patient's medical knowledge, anxiety level and possibly age, but not with intelligence.
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The use of readability formulas in health care
P. Ley,Tony Florio +1 more
TL;DR: Findings show that much of the material written for patients and clients, in the areas of informed consent, illnesses and their investigation and treatment, and lifestyle advice, is too difficult for many of them to understand.
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Patients' satisfaction and reported acceptance of advice in general practice.
TL;DR: Patients' views were sought by questionnaires and home visits on how satisfied they were with the care they received from their general practitioners and how much of the advice received they were prepared to accept.