Medical Jargon And Clear Communication

Talking Points About Health Literacy | Health Literacy

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Clear communication means presenting familiar concepts, words, numbers, and images in ways that make sense to the people who need the information. Testing information products with your intended audience and asking for …

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Health Literacy and Clear Communication Best Practices …

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Clear communication occurs when information is easy to understand and act on the first time it is heard (Pfizer, 2004). Although clear communication best …

Accuracy in Patient Understanding of Common Medical …

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Health care professionals regularly use jargon when communicating with patients, despite acknowledging that it should be avoided. 1-7 Though this medical …

Effective Communication in Health Care

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Clear, honest communication between patient and provider paves the way for accurate diagnoses and treatment decisions. Similarly, clear, …

Patient Communication: Jargon-Free Medical Terms

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Medical jargon has been described as a second language used by healthcare professionals to shorten and ease communication. In patient care, this …

Doctors must avoid jargon when talking to patients, royal …

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Doctors should speak slowly and avoid using jargon with their patients, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has said. 1 A report by the college said …

IMPACT OF MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY ON PATIENTS' …

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Development of medicine, especially seen in past decades, promoted changes in medical procedures and documentation, i.e. development of more accurate and valuable …

Say what? Medical jargon leaves cancer …

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Clear communication — and context — are even more critical, he said, as treatments become more nuanced. “Genetic testing is a rapidly evolving field and …

Identifying and classifying medical jargon through …

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Medical jargon has been defined as words with specific medical meanings that are not generally understood [2,, , , ]. Various strategies to teach jargon avoidance …