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Accuracy in Patient Understanding of Common Medical Phrases


Accuracy in Patient Understanding of Common Medical Phrases

These findings suggest that several common phrases are misunderstood when used in a medical setting, with the interpreted meaning frequently the exact opposite ...

Accuracy in Patient Understanding of Common Medical Phrases

These findings suggest that several common phrases are misunderstood when used in a medical setting, with the interpreted meaning frequently ...

Accuracy in Patient Understanding of Common Medical Phrases

Introduction. Health care professionals regularly use jargon when communicating with patients, despite acknowledging that it should be avoided.

Accuracy in patient understanding of common medical phrases.

Ensuring patients understand their diagnosis and care plan is important to achieving optimal outcomes. However, patients routinely report not understanding ...

(PDF) Accuracy in Patient Understanding of Common Medical Phrases

Twelve percent of participants correctly identified medical roles in rank order. Most participants (74%) correctly identified medical students ...

Accuracy in Patient Understanding of Common Medical Phrases

While most (171 [80%]) recognized that an unremarkable chest radiography was good news, only 44 participants (21%) correctly understood that a ...

Still Using Medical Jargon? Prepare to Be Misunderstood

Not surprisingly, participants had a significantly better understanding of common-language equivalents compared with jargon phrases (98% vs 87%, ...

Patient understanding of medical jargon: A survey study of U.S. ...

Words also matter in terms of outcomes; a growing body of evidence links patients' understanding of their medical problems with adherence to prescribed ...

Medical terminology can be confusing for patients - ScienceDaily

... medical language used by doctors and patient understanding ... Accuracy in Patient Understanding of Common Medical Phrases. JAMA ...

Some common medical terms may be more confusing than doctors ...

When surveyed, doctors overwhelmingly agree that they should avoid medical jargon when speaking with patients, Pitt says. But many don't even ...

Accuracy of patient understanding of common medical phrases

About The Study: The findings of this survey study of 215 adults suggest that several common phrases are misunderstood when used in a ...

The Importance of Understanding Medical Terminology

Medical terminology is the backbone of healthcare communication, promoting accuracy, safety, and efficiency in patient care.

Jargon Be Gone – Patient Preference in Doctor Communication

While most studies on medical jargon focus on patients' understanding of terminology ( · It is worth noting that even in this highly educated ...

Todd Rogers on X: "another reason to write simply: accurate medical ...

... reason to write simply: accurate medical phrases can be interpreted to mean their opposite ... Accuracy in Patient Understanding of Common Medical ...

Six strategies for discussing complex medical terms with patients

When communicating with a patient who doesn't understand the language you're using, you may need to resort to special tools. Sometimes visual ...

Video: Accuracy & Abbreviations in Medical Terminology - Study.com

In this lesson, we covered the importance of accuracy in medical terminology. Medical terms must be pronounced correctly when communicating with other ...

Accuracy & Abbreviations in Medical Terminology - Lesson

Terms should also be spelled correctly when they are being documented in the patient charts. The charts are legal documents that may be needed in legal ...

Patient understanding of medical jargon: A survey study of U.S. ...

In a multivariate model, other factors did not explain these differences. Conclusion Students do not generally presume that patients understand medical jargon.

Should doctors use or avoid medical terms? The influence of ...

Medical terms are fundamental for patients to understand the nature of diseases/symptoms and the diagnostic process [39], but they are ...

Medical communication: Do our patients understand? - ScienceDirect

This study, the first of a United States ED population, showed that ED patients, on average, can identify analogous terms for only half of the word pairs used ...