title: Making primarily professional terms more comprehensible to the lay audience.
abstract: Certain texts, such as clinical reports and clinical trial records, are written by professionals for professionals while being increasingly accessed by lay people. To improve the comprehensibility of such documents to the lay audience, we conducted a pilot study to analyze terms used primarily by health professionals, and explore ways to make them more comprehensible to lay people.
authors.affiliation: Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Sergey
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goryachev
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zeng-Treitler
authors.forename: Catherine Arnott
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Allen C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Browne
authors.forename: Guy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Divita
authors.forename: Alla
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Keselman
authors.forename: Gondy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Leroy
authors.forename: Rosa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Figueroa
mesh_terms: D001900:Boston; D032882:Comprehension; D054626:Consumer Health Information; D004018:Dictionaries, Medical as Topic; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011639:Public Opinion; D009626:Terminology as Topic