The influence of medical jargon mixed with foreign terminology in the Japanese clinical environment

Internal Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 1329-1334

  Tokuda, Yasuharu ^a   Okamoto, Sawako ^b   Yoshioka, Yasuo ^c   Aizawa, Masao ^c   Tanaka, Makiro ^c   Motomura, Kazuhisa ^d   Hayano, Keiko ^e  

^a ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR JAPANESE LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS   (Japan)

^d Ohji Seikyo Hospital   (Japan)

^e KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clinical communication; Foreign terminology; Medical abbreviation; Medical interview; Medical terminology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JAPAN; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN; SELF EMPLOYMENT; SPUTUM CYTODIAGNOSIS; UNEMPLOYMENT; AGE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 53049092184     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.47.0862     Document Type: Article

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