Effective Communication of Pathology Results to Requesting Practitioners and Consumers

Outcomes of the Literature Review: Effective Communication of Health Information

Page last updated: 14 May 2013

Effective communication of health information requires that at least four important aspects be considered:

  1. The content of communicated information. This content should satisfy the information needs of health consumers as reported in the information needs literature.
  2. The communication tools that are used to communicate this information (content)
  3. The communication formats that are used to present this information (content)
  4. The typefaces of the communicated information, which includes several aspects such as fonts, sizes and styles.