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Importance Despite acknowledging that medical jargon should be avoided, health care
practitioners frequently use it when communicating with patients. Objective To characterize …

Many health care decisions depend not only upon medical facts, but also on value
judgments—patient goals and preferences. Until recent decades, patients relied on doctors …

None of us went into medicine to confuse people. Yet, studies on our use of jargon—the
technical terminology of a given group—reveal that we consistently do precisely that. While …

Objective Radiation oncology consultations involve explanation of complex technical
concepts using medical jargon. This study aimed to: analyse types and frequency of medical …

Objective: Unexplained medical terminology impedes clinician/parent communication. We
describe jargon use in a pediatric surgical setting. Methods: We evaluated encounters …

While it has been shown that healthcare providers often use medical jargon, less is known
about how patients prefer their clinicians communicate. This mixed-methods study aimed to …

Background: A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on death and dying was conducted to
open the dialogue around death and dying. In one activity, participants were asked to …

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease have adopted medical jargon terms of “flare” and
“remission,” but what they mean by these terms is ill-defined and may have implications for …

Purpose Due to limited health literacy and resulting ineffective communication between
healthcare professionals and patients, not all eligible patients are offered breast cancer …