10/16/2026
Checkout this month's trending article for HLRP, "What Questions Do You Have?: Teaching Medical Students to Use an Open-Ended Phrase for Eliciting Patients' Questions"
Patients frequently do not understand health information received in clinical settings, yet rates of question-asking by patients are low, particularly for patients with lower health literacy skills. Experts recommend that health care professionals attempt to elicit patients' questions by using an open-ended phrase, such as “What questions do you have?”