Open AccessRespiratory disease terminology: Discordance between pulmonologists and patients
Author(s) -
Nishtha Singh,
Sheetu Singh,
Nirmal Jain,
Virendra Singh
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
lung india
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-598X
pISSN - 0970-2113
DOI - 10.4103/0970-2113.197092
Subject(s) - pulmonologists , medicine , terminology , disease , medline , intensive care medicine , linguistics , philosophy , political science , law
A number of local dialects and languages exist in India, which leads to a single disease being addressed by a number of names which may overlap with other disease names also. This creates misunderstanding and is a hindrance to effective patient-doctor communication.