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January 09, 2008

Medical abbreviations 'pose risk'

The Medical Defense Union (MDU?) and the BBC commented at the weekend on the problems caused by using abbreviations in patients' notes. Abbreviating drug names and drug doses seems to be particularly bad news, but I say that this goes for anatomy too. When teaching you'll usually find clinicians using far more abbreviations than anatomists. Watch out!

BBC article

Posted by samwebster at January 9, 2008 01:08 PM
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