Patients and jargon: are we speaking the same language?

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 343-346

  Fields, Aaron M ^a   Freiberg, Craig S ^a   Fickenscher, Alexandra ^b   Shelley, Kirk H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Jargon; Patient understanding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA; INTUBATION; LANGUAGE; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 50149083285     PISSN: 09528180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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