Revealing the hidden characteristics of patient information for radiography with a lexical bundles analysis.

2021 ◽  
pp. 100014
Author(s):  
Catherine Richards
Keyword(s):  
Patient Information ◽  
Lexical Bundles

scholarly journals Distinctive Lexical Patterns in Russian Patient Information Leaflets: A Corpus-Driven Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 659-680
Author(s):  
Łukasz Grabowski
Keyword(s):  
Patient Information ◽  
Formulaic Language ◽  
Lexical Bundles ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Patient Information Leaflets ◽  
Information Leaflets ◽  
Situational Contexts ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
N Gram ◽  
Russian Patient

This methodologically-oriented corpus-driven study focuses on distinctive patterns of language use in a specialized text type, namely Russian patient information leaflets. The study’s main goal is to identify keywords and recurrent sequences of words that account for the leaflets’ formulaicity, and - as a secondary goal - to describe their discoursal functions. The keywords were identified using three methods (G2, Hedges’ g and Neozeta) and the overlap between the three metrics was explored. The overlapping keywords were qualitatively analyzed in terms of discoursal functions. As for the distinctive multi-word patterns, we focused on recurrent n-grams with the largest coverage in the corpus: these were identified using the Formulex method (Forsyth, 2015b), which provides complementary data with respect to more conservative n- gram and lexical bundles approaches. The results revealed that the most distinctive keywords were identified using Hedges’ g metric, that the largest overlap occurred between G2 and Neozeta metrics, and that the frequent use and discoursal functions of the identified lexical patterns correspond with situational contexts and communicative purposes of patient information leaflets. It is hoped that this study will provide an opportunity for a methodological reflection and inspire further corpus-driven research on distinctive recurrent lexical patterns (e.g., keywords, n-grams, lexical bundles) or - more generally - on formulaic language in texts originally written in Russian.

Patient Information Privacy Basics

ASHA Leader ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. 3-46
Author(s):  
Kate Romanow
Keyword(s):  
Patient Information ◽  
Information Privacy

1709: The PCA3 Score is Independent of Prostate Gland Volume, and Can Synergize with other Patient Information for Predicting Biopsy Outcome

2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 568-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Groskopf ◽  
Ina L. Deras ◽  
Amy Blase ◽  
Sheila M.J. Aubin ◽  
Seongjoon Koo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Information ◽  
Prostate Gland ◽  
Gland Volume

A comparative analysis of the lay-friendliness of Danish EU patient information leaflets from 2000 to 2012

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Inger Askehave ◽  
Karen Korning Zethsen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Patient Information ◽  
Patient Information Leaflet ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Information Leaflet ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Patient Information Leaflets ◽  
Information Leaflets ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Eu

Since becoming mandatory in the EU in 1992, the patient information leaflet (PIL) has been the subject of an on-going discussion regarding its ability to provide easily understandable information. This study examines whether the lay-friendliness of Danish PILs has improved from 2000 to 2012 according to the Danish consumers. A reproduction of a questionnaire study from 2000 was carried out. The responses of the 2012 survey were compared to those of the 2000 survey and the analysis showed that Danes are less inclined to read the PIL in 2012 compared to 2000 and that the general interest in PILs has decreased. The number of respondents who deem the PIL easy to read has gone down. According to Danish consumers, the lay-friendliness of PILs has not improved from 2000 to 2012 and a very likely explanation could be that the PIL as a genre has become far too regulated and complex to live up to its original intentions. On the basis of the empirical results the article furthermore offers suggestions for practice changes.

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