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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Medical terminology"”.
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Patient Understanding of Medical Terminology
… to examine patient understanding of common medical terminology. The structured questionnaires were administered and evaluated to determine if there was a significant difference between medical staff or patients' perceived knowledge and the patients' actual knowledge of medical terminology. A …
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Discordant definitions of medical terminology and their impact on communication between English-speaking doctors and Xhosa-speaking parents at a paediatric hospital
… area of applied linguistics, in the field of medical communication. The central problem which I investigate is the imperfect communication that takes place between largely English-speaking doctors and largely Xhosa-speaking parents. Some of the problems result from lack of bilingualism or …
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Impact of physicians’ medical jargon use on patient behavior
… may include complex technical language and/or medical terminology, it is often difficult for patients to understand their own diagnoses or treatment plans. The purpose of this research was to understand the relationship between physician use of medical terminology and patient satisfaction. An …
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Anglo-Saxon Medicine and Disease: A Semantic Approach
… emphasis on semantic interference between Latin medical terminology and Old English medical terminology. The main purpose of the examination is to determine the extent to which scholarly ideas concerning the nature of the human body and the causes of disease were preserved between the Latin texts …
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Multi-Dimensional Evaluation Metrics for Chest X-Ray Reports
… context awareness of frequent and acceptable medical terminology.
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Classification of semantic relations in different syntactic structures in medical text using the MeSH hierarchy
… entry in the MeSH hierarchy. MeSH includes only medical terminology so it was extended to include everyday, non-medical terms. The two classification algorithms, neural networks and a classification tree, were trained and tested on the data set for each type of syntactic compound. Models …
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The Humanity Strain: Diagnosing the Self in Walker Percy's Fiction
… more on Percy's Christian agenda than the medical healing that occurs in his fiction. Conversely, when scholars have observed the influence of Percy's medical background in his fiction, they often emphasize Percy's use of medical terminology and his portrayals of physicians and illness …
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Learning Strategies and Motivational Patterns, as Measured by the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire, Among Students Pursuing Nursing and Allied Health Careers
… was administered to 108 students enrolled in a Medical Terminology course and a Fundamentals of Biology for the Health Technologies course at a public community college in Midwest U.S.A. The students were assessed to identify how students’ motivational attitudes and strategies can be improved to …
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Drawing Water, Drawing Breath, Drawing Thread, A synthesis of clinical and creative practice through space-time
… and examining the significance of a common terminology. A wide range of drawing methods and theories is examined and related to both clinical and creative practice. The portfolio comprises work on paper including text images, photography, videography and cloth; ‘Drawing Thread’. The key …
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ParentCoach: co-designing a chatbot to support first-time parents
… content and integrate simple language with medical terminology to enhance parents' understanding, enable user-initiated chatbot interactions, and offer customizable features for community inclusivity. Though we set out to co-design a chatbot to support first-time parents, I did not end up …
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ParentCoach: co-designing a chatbot to support first-time parents
… content and integrate simple language with medical terminology to enhance parents' understanding, enable user-initiated chatbot interactions, and offer customizable features for community inclusivity. Though we set out to co-design a chatbot to support first-time parents, I did not end up …
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A study of assessing knowledge and health beliefs about cardiovascular disease among selected undergraduate university students using Health Belief Model.
… Foundation of Human Health, First Aid and CPR, Medical Terminology, Math, History, and Geography classes at a mid-western university were surveyed to access knowledge and health beliefs about CVD. The Health Belief Model provided the theoretical framework for this study. <Bolds>Results:<Bolds> …
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NOVEL DATA MINING ALGORITHMS FOR ANALYSIS OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS
Medical health providers use electronic health records (EHRs) to store information about patient treatment to support patient care management and securely share health information among healthcare organizations. EHRs have also been used in healthcare research in problems such as patient …
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Narrated Experiences of Medically Assisted Reproduction in Hungary - Infertility from a Multimethod Perspective
… and lived experiences of female patients using medically assisted reproductive technologies in Hungary. In general, the aim of the thesis research is to explore patients’ constructed narratives about infertility and reproduction technologies used in treatment. Further goal is to understand the …
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Extensions of SNOMED taxonomy abstraction networks supporting auditing and complexity analysis
… (SNOMED CT) has been widely used as a standard terminology in various biomedical domains. The enhancement of the quality of SNOMED contributes to the improvement of the medical systems that it supports. In previous work, the Structural Analysis of Biomedical Ontologies Center (SABOC) team has …
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Enriching and designing metaschemas for the UMLS semantic network
The disparate terminologies used by various biomedical applications or professionals make the communication between them more difficult. The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is an attempt to integrate different medical terminologies into a unified …