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Writing outpatient letters to patients
How good are doctors at plain English?
BMJ 2020; 368 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m945 (Published 11 March 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;368:m945- William J Reid, medical student
- University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
- william.reid-2{at}student.manchester.ac.uk
Rayner and colleagues encourage hospital doctors to address their outpatient clinic letters not to general practitioners but to patients and, crucially, to write them in language that patients can understand.1 “Use plain English where possible,” say the guidelines that the authors helped create. But how good …
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