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- Title
Response to Letter to the Editor Re: Eradicating Jargon-Oblivion—a Proposed Classification System of Medical Jargon.
- Authors
Pitt, Michael B.; Hendrickson, Marissa A.
- Abstract
We appreciate this letter highlighting the important nuance that the effects of jargon usage can be amplified when jargon is captured in written form.[1] As we have presented our work on the seven categories of jargon,[2] we have heard many stories of confusion stemming from a patient's misinterpretation of what was written. Response to Letter to the Editor Re: Eradicating Jargon-Oblivion - a Proposed Classification System of Medical Jargon References 1 Lessing JN, Farsad YY, Cumbler E. Letter to the Editor: Eradicating jargon-oblivion - a proposed classification system of medical jargon.
- Subjects
MEDICAL coding; JARGON (Terminology); COMPUTED tomography
- Publication
JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2021, Vol 36, Issue 4, p1112
- ISSN
0884-8734
- Publication type
Letter
- DOI
10.1007/s11606-020-06545-z