Visualization of Serious Illness Conversation (IMAGE)

Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont

Visualization of Serious Illness Conversation

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In this visualization of a serious illness conversation, each vertical bar represents a speaker turn, and the height of each bar is proportional to the length of the turn, with patient turns in red and clinician turns in blue. The alternating short-long pattern in turn length that dominates these conversations is apparent, and CODYM analysis helps us understand this and other patterns, revealing insights about information flow in conversation.

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Courtesy of Laurence Clarfeld, University of Vermont

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