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Language & Bioethics Collaboratory
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A sample of previous and ongoing research projects at the LAB collab:
Understanding Hedging Language
What is the impact of language that introduces ambiguity (e.g. "hedging language") in clinical scenarios?
Project Leads:
Hannah Kirsch and Kristin Kennedy
Exception from Informed Consent
One question or one sentence summary of EFIC project / conceptual ideas/direction
Samantha Stein & Justin Clapp
Candidacy & Decision Making
What shapes what interventions are possible and how are those possibilities conveyed to patients?
Bonnie O. Wong and Jacob A. Blythe
"We got it all" & other simple phrases
How do simple phrases like "we got it all" stick in patients' minds with unintended downstream effects?
Project Lead:
Bonnie O. Wong
Treatability
How do different individuals understand the concept of "treatability" differently and why does it matter?
Jason N. Batten & Bonnie O. Wong
Decision Making and Cancer Care
How does longitudinal and multidisciplinary decision making happen for cancer care?
Justin T. Clapp & Samantha Stein