" MEDICAL ESSAYS FOR LAY READERS."

Generation of Biomedical Arguments for Lay Readers

This paper presents the design of a discourse generator that plans the content and organization of lay-oriented genetic counseling documents containing arguments, and an experiment to evaluate the arguments. Due to the separation of domain, argument, and genre-specific concerns and the methodology used for acquiring a domain model, this approach should be applicable to argument generation in ot...

Medical research needs lay involvement.

Multivariable analysis: a primer for readers of medical research.

Many clinical readers, especially those uncomfortable with mathematics, treat published multivariable models as a black box, accepting the author's explanation of the results. However, multivariable analysis can be understood without undue concern for the underlying mathematics. This paper reviews the basics of multivariable analysis, including what multivariable models are, why they are used, ...

The medical dictator and other biographical essays

Medical students' experiences with medical errors: an analysis of medical student essays.

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examine medical students' experiences with medical errors. METHODS In 2001 and 2002, 172 fourth-year medical students wrote an anonymous description of a significant medical error they had witnessed or committed during their clinical clerkships. The assignment represented part of a required medical ethics course. We analysed 147 of these essays using thematic con...