Making primarily professional terms more comprehensible to the lay audience.
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.
Goryachev
Sergey
S
Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Zeng-Treitler
Qing
Q
Smith
Catherine Arnott
CA
Browne
Allen C
AC
Divita
Guy
G
Keselman
Alla
A
Leroy
Gondy
G
Figueroa
Rosa
R
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