Written communication in the form of patient documentation helps practitioners continuously learn, update and understand their patients. By documenting everything; both clinical and non clinical, an appropriate report can be made for the client (Fowler, 2015) and hence provide the most effective response. Additionally, this will allow for client files (and consequently, a database – Fig. 1) to be produced in the practice and as a result, a patient history will be developed in the long term whilst allowing up-to-date information to be transcribed short term.
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Communication in Podiatric Medicine 