title: [Rethinking the Prescription's Comprehension: an Example of Care Centers for Deaf People].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Since the realization of the difficulties for Deaf people to access care, specific assisting services in french sign language (FSL) and adapted prevention campaigns have developed in France. Illiteracy, a significant problem among Deaf people, makes the comprehension of prescription uncertain.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Exploring and describing the adaptations implemented by professional signers to avoid confusion related to prescription's directions.
  
  
  METHODS
  This qualitative study in participant observation listed the different sources of confusion and the adaptations applied on prescriptions on a daily basis by eight practitioners and three intermediators who worked in six care cent ers for Deaf people. Interviews with deaf patients aimed to ascertain the encountered difficulties. These adaptations were presented, for a three-way correlation, during a national meeting attended by professional workers in care centers for Deaf people. They were subjected to a review by all attendees in order to generate a more consensual report.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The sources of the identified misunderstandings turned out to be connected with time representation, the use of unknown words or words with double meaning, and the issuing of several documents. To reduce the risk of error, professional signers would use charts, calendars, drawings, replace durations by dates. Some of them requested that the patient would rephrase the understood information. Pros and cons, as well as the pat ient's profile were detailed for each adaptation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Even if no method can suppress all risks of confusion, this work leads us to a reflection on alterity through the risk of medicinal errors, on prescription in general, may it be directed to a patient with no particular vulnerability or to a handicapped or illiterate one.
authors.affiliation: Département de Médecine Générale, Faculté de Médecine, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France.
authors.forename: Lauranne
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Coignard
authors.affiliation: Département de Médecine Générale, Faculté de Médecine Jacques Lisfranc, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne, France - Consultation de Médecine Générale en langue des signes française (LSF, santesourd.lsf42@orange.fr), Saint Étienne, France.
authors.forename: Cécile
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Martinez
authors.affiliation: Département de Médecine Générale, Faculté de Médecine Jacques Lisfranc, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne, France - Consultation de Médecine Générale en langue des signes française (LSF, santesourd.lsf42@orange.fr), Saint Étienne, France.
authors.forename: Hervé
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bonnefond
authors.affiliation: Département de Médecine Générale, Faculté de Médecine Jacques Lisfranc, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne, France - Consultation de Médecine Générale en langue des signes française (LSF, santesourd.lsf42@orange.fr), Saint Étienne, France.
authors.forename: Rodolphe
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Charles
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D003144:Communication Barriers; D003145:Communication Methods, Total; D032882:Comprehension; D003221:Confusion / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D003638:Deafness / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D000067010:Literacy; D008297:Male; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control; D008875:Middle Aged; D019986:Persons with Hearing Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D010595:Pharmacists / Q000523:psychology; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D055656:Prescriptions; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012813:Sign Language; D012984:Software; D055815:Young Adult