Readability of British and American medical prose at the start of the 21st century
- 21 December 2002
- Vol. 325 (7378) , 1451-1452
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1451
Abstract
We obtained electronic versions of articles from the BMJ and JAMA published in the first six months of 2001. We limited our analysis to articles that were published as “Papers” in the BMJ or “Original Papers” in JAMA, had structured abstracts, and had first authors with either British or US institutional affiliations. The BMJ published 42 such articles and JAMA 68.Keywords
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