A method to quantify residents\u27 jargon use during counseling of standardized patients about cancer screening

Background Jargon is a barrier to effective patient-physician communication, especially when health literacy is low or the topic is complicated. Jargon is addressed by medical schools and residency programs, but reducing jargon usage by the many physicians already in practice may require the population-scale methods used in Quality Improvement. Objective To assess the amount of jargon used and explained during discussions about prostate or breast cancer screening. Effective communication is recommended before screening for prostate or breast cancer because of the large number of false-positive results and the possible complications from evaluation or treatment. Participants Primary care internal medicine residents. Measurements Transcripts of 86 conversations between residents and standardized patients were abstracted using an explicit-criteria data dictionary. Time lag from jargon words to explanations was measured using “statements,” each of which contains one subject and one predicate. Results Duplicate abstraction revealed reliability κ = 0.92. The average number of unique jargon words per transcript was 19.6 (SD = 6.1); the total jargon count was 53.6 (SD = 27.2). There was an average of 4.5 jargon-explanations per transcript (SD = 2.3). The ratio of explained to total jargon was 0.15. When jargon was explained, the average time lag from the first usage to the explanation was 8.4 statements (SD = 13.4). Conclusions The large number of jargon words and low number of explanations suggest that many patients may not understand counseling about cancer screening tests. Educational programs and faculty development courses should continue to discourage jargon usage. The methods presented here may be useful for feedback and quality improvement efforts

Neologistic jargon aphasia and agraphia in primary progressive aphasia

The terms 'jargon aphasia' and 'jargon agraphia' describe the production of incomprehensible language containing frequent phonological, semantic or neologistic errors in speech and writing, respectively. Here we describe two patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) who produced neologistic jargon either in speech or writing. We suggest that involvement of the posterior superior temporal-inferior parietal region may lead to a disconnection between stored lexical representations and language output pathways leading to aberrant activation of phonemes in neologistic jargon. Parietal lobe involvement is relatively unusual in PPA, perhaps accounting for the comparative rarity of jargon early in the course of these diseases. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Maltese legal jargon

Maltese legal language is historically bound to Italian usage. And even if in 1934 Maltese took the place of Italian in the Courts, there was no way that could alter this allegiance to the origins of this particular jargon that is practically alien to what is spoken by the man in the street. Words and expressions are either imported from Italian or created on an Italianate pattern. In the process, certain words have developed meanings that are not necessarily common to their Italian origin.peer-reviewe

Pediatric residents\u27 use of jargon during counseling about newborn genetic screening results

OBJECTIVE. The goal was to investigate pediatric residents’ usage of jargon during discussions about positive newborn screening test results. METHODS. An explicit-criteria abstraction procedure was used to identify jargon usage and explanations in transcripts of encounters between residents and standardized parents of a fictitious infant found to carry cystic fibrosis or sickle cell hemoglobinopathy. Residents were recruited from a series of educational workshops on how to inform parents about positive newborn screening test results. The time lag from jargon words to explanations was measured by using “statements,” each of which contained 1 subject and 1 predicate. RESULTS. Duplicate abstraction revealed reliability K of 0.92. The average number of unique jargon words per transcript was 20; the total jargon count was 72.3 words. There was an average of 7.5 jargon explanations per transcript, but the explained/ total jargon ratio was only 0.17. When jargon was explained, the average time lag from the first usage to the explanation was 8.2 statements. CONCLUSION. The large number of jargon words and the small number of explanations suggest that physicians’ counseling about newborn screening may be too complex for some parents

PENGGUNAAN BAHASA PROKEM WARIA DI KOTA TRENGGALEK

Language is a tool of social interaction or a tool of human communication. In any activity, language can provide information in the form of thoughts, ideas, intentions, or feelings directly. Communication is the delivery of the message and intent of one person to another through language. The emergence of different languages or language variations caused by the speaker to choose language appropriate to the situation in the context of sosialnya.Ragam language is the language variation that arise because of different usage, different topics discussed and a different conversation medium. One of the variations in\ud language that is jargon. Jargon language is characterized by variations in speech newfound vocabulary and rapidly changing, used by young people or social groups and professionals to communicate in it. Jargon language transvestites in the city of Psychology, can be either (1) word, (2) abbreviations and acronyms. This is the principal form of jargon that will be analyzed. From the analysis results are expected to give an objective picture of the patterns of word formation, function and meaning of the slang transvestites in the city of Psychology. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method. Descriptive method means that the study was based on facts or phenomena that live on the speakers. Data taken from the informants, in this case that there are transvestites in the city of Terri .. The use of slang language is based on the convention transgendered community in the City of Trenggalek, so that people outside the group is difficult to understand its meaning. Pattern formation transvestite slang language is (a) replacing the word with a word, another word that sounds similar, and the name of the person, (b) the words that got additions, prefixes, and word insertion and deletion, (c) new words that can not be classified .. jargon language functions as (1) information, (2) request, (3) solicitation, (4) questions, (5) irritation, (6) praise, (7) advice, (8) invective. The meaning of language is the meaning of jargon jargon language transvestites based on the context of a conversation directly with the analysis of the occurrence of a conversation, the topic pembicaraa, the atmosphere and the other person

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