Task, Talk and Text in the Operating Room A Study in Medical Discourse

THE CONTEXT OF OPERATIVE REPORTS Learning to Dictate Operative Reports A Brief Description of Medical Records Purposes of the Medical Records Creation of Operative Reports Purposes of Operative Reports: A Subclassification Based on Audience Needs Background of This Study This Study PROCESS OF TEXT-BUILDING OF OPERATIVE REPORTS Previous Research The Operation Data Collection Relationship Between Talk in the Operation and Information on the Operative Report Language Acts Not on the Medical Record Information That Is Partially on the Operative Report Instruments The Gastric Mass Conclusion THE NARRATIVE STRUCTURE OF OPERATIVE REPORTS Data Division of the Text as a Whole The Report Narrative: Review of Literature on Episodes Methodology for Determining Episodes Analysis Analysis of Next Analysis of Then Prosodic Features and Episode Boundaries Level of Generality of the First Sentence in Episodes Conclusion CHANGE IN REPORTING STYLES OF SURGICAL RESIDENTS Two Language Acts: Describing the Procedure and Describing the Findings The Fifth-Year Residents Data Rhetorical Differences between Description of Procedures and Description of Findings Linguistic Reflections of Rhetorical Differences in the Beginning and Final Reports Conclusion IMPLICATIONS OF THIS STUDY Conclusions Appendices Bibliography Author Index Subject IndexPettinari, Catherine J. is the author of 'Task, Talk and Text in the Operating Room A Study in Medical Discourse', published 1997 under ISBN 9780893914592 and ISBN 0893914592.