ICH News
27
May
2022
ICH and CHF webinar: 'The role of health communication in patient safety and quality of care'
On 25 May 2022, the ANU Institute for Communication in Health Care proudly joined with the Consumer Health Forum of Australia (Australia's...
08
Mar
2022
Communication the key to a correct diagnosis: ICH research in the media
A new study in Diagnosis, ‘Diagnostic statements: a linguistic analysis of how clinicians communicate diagnosis’, reveals doctors who got...
02
Mar
2022
New ICH research on nursing handover: Nurses at end-of-shift face greater personal and health systems barriers to engaging patients
A new study, ‘Tracing interpersonal discursive features in Australian nursing bedside handovers’ in English for Specific Purposes, reveals...
13
Jul
2021
A new ICH opinion piece: ‘More than words’ – Interpersonal communication, cognitive bias and diagnostic errors
A new opinion piece, "‘More than words’ – Interpersonal communication, cognitive bias and diagnostic errors" in Patient Education and...
06
Jul
2021
IC4CH partner Elena Semino on the power of metaphor during the pandemic
Elena Semino is professor of linguistics and verbal art at Lancaster University, director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to...
28
Apr
2021
Collected Works of Renowned Linguist Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen Now Available
The first volume of the collected works of renowned linguist Christian M.I.M. Matthiesson is now available through Equinox Publishing. ...
29
Sep
2020
Impact of COVID-19 on health communication: webinar with the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care
The Institute for Communication in Health Care hosted our second successful webinar on 23 September as part of the announcement of the...
