TY - JOUR AU - Álvarez, Isabel AU - Selva, Laia AU - Medina, José Luis AU - Sáez, Salvador PY - 2017 DA - 2017/11/16 TI - Using root metaphors to analyze communication between nurses and patients: a qualitative study JO - BMC Medical Education SP - 216 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - Metaphors in communication can serve to convey individuals’ backgrounds, contexts, experiences, and worldviews. Metaphors used in a health care setting can help achieve consensual communication in professional–patient relationships. Patients use metaphors to describe symptoms, or how disease affects them. Health professionals draw on shared understanding of such metaphors to better comprehend and meet patient needs, and to communicate information that patients can more easily integrate into their lives. SN - 1472-6920 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-017-1059-0 DO - 10.1186/s12909-017-1059-0 ID - Álvarez2017 ER -