Why Are Patient Narratives Important? The patient’s narrative provides meaning, context, and an understanding of the patient’s experience of illness. In other words, the narrative builds the bridge connecting the evidence of large clinical trials to the individual patient. Why are narratives important to health communication? For example, that a “narrative has the potential to
Why Is Narrative Medicine Important? Narrative-based medicine involves seeing the patient’s health issue from their perspective and understanding their suffering. Practicing medicine with narrative competence results in a better understanding of the patient’s story, making you a more effective clinician and increasing patient satisfaction. What is the purpose of narrative medicine? In a nutshell, narrative
What Is A Patient Narrative? Patient narrative is a summary of AEs occurring in a clinical trial patient/subject. It is generally written for the following criteria: Death, serious AE (SAE), event(s) of special interest, AE leading to study drug/trial discontinuation, and adjudication event(s). How do you write a patient narrative? Narratives should include the following: