@article{IR, school = {M.D.}, author = {King, Katherine}, url = {http://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/10089}, title = {Toward and automated method for assessing jargon in medical encounters}, publisher = {Oregon Health and Science University}, abstract = {Assessment of health professionals' jargon use in spoken communication as well as the efficacy of interventions to reduce jargon use by health professionals in clinical encounters is limited by current jargon identification methods which are subjective, labor-intensive, and expensive. The goal of this study is to validate a relatively fast, inexpensive, low-tech, automated, and widely available method to identify medical jargon in clinical encounters. We hypothesized that video-recorded clinical encounters can be converted into written transcripts using free software from YouTube.com and analyzed for medical jargon using Health Literacy Advisor Online (HLA) proprietary software. We found that automated transcription and HLA software can be used to provide rough estimations of frequency of jargon use, but further work is needed to find a methodology for automated jargon detection with improved sensitivity.}, number = {IR}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.6083/p8418p123}, recid = {10089}, address = {2023}, }