Podcast on the Art of the Patient Conversation: Healthcare Provider Perspectives to Improve Outcomes in Multiple Sclerosis

In this podcast article, nurse practitioners discuss multimodal strategies that enable appropriate conversations to meet patients’ needs through the following four techniques: patient-centric language, teach-back, open-ended questions, and active listening and paraphrasing. These techniques are incorporated into example patient–provider conversations to demonstrate their effectiveness in clinical practice. Comprehensive patient conversations and optimizing patient interactions builds a trustworthy foundation for shared decision-making to improve health literacy and outcomes in patients with Multiple Sclerosis.   This podcast is published open access in the journal Neurology and Therapy and is fully citeable. You can access the original published podcast article through the Springerlink website and by using this link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40120-023-00446-z. All conflicts of interest can be found online.   Open Access This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The material in this podcast is included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.   This podcast in intended for medical professionals.