Communication without dialogue? Framing patient-professional interaction in UK institutional discourse on pregnancy loss

Communication failures are repeatedly implicated in harmful experiences and outcomes in pregnancy care, especially in contexts of loss, yet little is known about how communication itself is represented in the institutional texts that shape expectations of care. This study examines the extent to which communication is discussed, and how patient-healthcare professional interaction is framed, in publicly accessible UK discourse about pregnancy loss. Two corpora comprising texts from seven medical organisations (120,383 words) and eight charities (224,481 words) were divided into healthcare profes

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