Total jargon use during appointments ranged from 0 to 26, with a mean of 5.40 instances of use during each encounter, the authors report. The mean use of distinct jargon terms was 3.41 per appointment ...

When cases of COVID-19 began rising in Boston last spring, Pooja Chandrashekar, then a first year student at Harvard Medical School, worried that easy-to-understand information about the pandemic ...

Medical professionals commonly use jargon to discuss software systems, medical devices and terms. Yet, too much jargon can disengage patients and harm workplace culture. Here are four tips to ...

Chatbots are great at creating a list of questions to ask your doctor, simplifying jargon in medical records and walking you ...

Doctor talking to cancer patient Some patients do not understand common phrases oncologists use, such as “your tumor is progressing” or “your nodes are positive.” Medical terms that oncologists and ...

A patient in a nearby room overheard the question, was offended and told the nurse. It was then that the nurse explained that the question was "Where's the COW?" meaning computer on wheels -- the ...

But if a provider still is not sure how much medical jargon patients understand, Dr Miller recommends “subtle ways to explain without necessarily appearing to do so.” For example, the provider can ...

There's a lot of room for dangerous misunderstanding when doctors and public health officials talk to diverse groups about COVID-19. Health... When cases of COVID-19 began rising in Boston last spring ...

Doctor consults with patient. A team of researchers affiliated with the University of Central Florida in Orlando listened to audio recordings of patient encounters and found that less than half of all ...

Doctor consults with patient. A team of researchers affiliated with the University of Central Florida in Orlando listened to audio recordings of patient encounters and found that less than half of all ...