Accessibility and Order: Crossing Borders in Child Abuse Forensic Reports

Technical Communication Quarterly Mar 2010

Accessibility and Order: Crossing Borders in Child Abuse Forensic Reports

Marlee M. Spafford University of Waterloo ; Catherine F. Schryer Toronto Metropolitan University ; Lorelei Lingard Western University ; Marcellina Mian Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar

Abstract

Physicians write child abuse forensic reports for nonphysicians. We examined 73 forensic reports from a Canadian children's hospital for recurrent strategies geared toward making medical information accessible to nonmedical users; we also interviewed four report writers and five readers. These reports featured unique forensic inserts in addition to headings, lists, and parentheses, which are typical of physician letters for patients. We discuss implications of these strategies that must bridge the communities of medical, social, and legal practice.

Journal: Technical Communication Quarterly
Published: 2010-03-11
DOI: 10.1080/10572250903559324
Open Access: Closed
Topics: disability studies

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