improving communication

collocation in English

meaningsofimproveandcommunication

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improve
verb[I or T]
uk
/ɪmˈpruːv/us
/ɪmˈpruːv/
to (cause something to) ...
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communication
noun
uk
/kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/kəˌmjuː.nəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
the act of communicating ...
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(Definition ofimproveandcommunicationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Improvingcommunicationbetween workers is one step towards providing better care for the person with dementia.
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Improvingcommunicationwith cancer patients.
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This meansimprovingcommunicationskills, which includes the adoption of more gender-sensitive terminology.
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Surviving the stresses of clinical oncology byimprovingcommunication.
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Improvingcommunicationwith the medical staff.
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It is a simplified lesson onimprovingcommunicationchannels between government, university administration, academics, support staff and students.
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Therefore, an important future direction for research would focus onimprovingcommunicationbetween doctors and patients.
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These revolutionized the way that clinicians viewed family members, and had a general effect ofimprovingcommunicationbetween clinicians and informal carers.
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Although these nurses did make attempts to reduce duplication and improve responsiveness byimprovingcommunicationand referral, this was the extent of their progress.
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Any curriculum developed or adopted should include skill-building sessions on practical strategies forimprovingcommunicationgenerally, and then more specifically for disclosing mistakes to patients and families and apologizing.
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Come talk with me :improvingcommunicationbetween nursing assistants and nursing home residents during care routines.
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They share, though, an optimism that musical learning is worthy of investigation and development, and between them the authors offer some useful strategies for understanding students' experiences andimprovingcommunication.
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The management of dysphasia is largely based around speech therapy andimprovingcommunication.
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We have already implemented plans forimprovingcommunicationbetween the court and the prison and between two prisons.
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This is not just a question ofimprovingcommunication, it is also a matter of providing clearer explanations.
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They are alsoimprovingcommunicationto drivers before and during journeys.
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We think that that can best be achieved by building consensus and byimprovingcommunication, both inside the organisation itself and with external bodies.
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I hope that, by and large, companies will keepimprovingcommunicationwith their shareholders and the general public as to what they are doing.
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I accept that there is always scope forimprovingcommunicationand trust between our two institutions.
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