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- Title
Letter to the Editor: Eradicating Jargon-Oblivion—A Proposed Classification System of Medical Jargon.
- Authors
Lessing, Juan N.; Yazdani Farsad, Yasmin; Cumbler, Ethan
- Abstract
At the same time, written communication exposes the stark difficulty of removing jargon: in retrospective review, 34% of our letters contained at least one incidence of jargon. Letter to the Editor: Eradicating Jargon-Oblivion - A Proposed Classification System of Medical Jargon Dear Editor, We applaud Pitt and Hendrickson's article on jargon-oblivion.[1] It is important to recognize that jargon can be worse than uninterpretable, it can I also i cause harmful misinterpretation.
- Subjects
MEDICAL coding; JARGON (Terminology); PHYSICIAN-patient relations; MEDICAL language
- Publication
JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2021, Vol 36, Issue 4, p1111
- ISSN
0884-8734
- Publication type
Letter
- DOI
10.1007/s11606-020-06542-2