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clinicians should be very reluctant to use it in clinical practice. The chances are that such a questionnaire will not add to the quality of valid information exchange, not leading to better provider-patient interaction. In fact, it may diminish the quality of communication and lead to unwanted and dysfunctional situations.
It is of great importance that researchers keep striving for further development of user-friendly, valid and reliable questionnaires that can be used in research populations that represent ‘real life patient populations’, including native and minority patients with low health literacy. This will greatly benefit the generalizability and validity of patient-reported outcomes in research.
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