{
  "id": 12414,
  "url": "https://www.jmir.org/2026/1/e79744",
  "title": "Communication Barriers in Patient-Provider Interactions in Health Care: Scoping Review",
  "summary": "Background: Effective communication is crucial for high-quality health care, but systemic barriers still disrupt patient-provider interactions. Research shows that communication failures are a major reason for preventable medical errors. These issues are linked to around 30% of malpractice claims and over 1744 deaths each year in the United States. In addition, hospitals lose about US $12 billion each year because of miscommunication. Despite the critical nature of this issue, the literature rem",
  "authors": "Moajjem Hossain Chowdhury, Yunmei Liu",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "healthcare",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-07-21T22:00:18.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-22T05:10:49.469Z",
  "source_slug": "x-jmir-journal-of-medical-internet-researc",
  "source_name": "JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.jmir.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12414",
  "original_url": "https://www.jmir.org/2026/1/e79744",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}