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 Index