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how can eliminating medical abbreviations reduce errors
Eliminating medical abbreviations would reduce errors because many abbreviations are very similar and therefore people get confused between them, however, if abbreviations were eliminated it would make it very difficult on medical professionals who would have to write out very lengthy medical terms. That's why many organizations are developing written policies stating which abbreviations should not be used and medical professionals are trained to write legible when using other abbreviations
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In reality, it would become readily apparent if someone in a medical setting didn't understand medical abbreviations or terminology. The reason for this is abbreviations and specific medical terms are used on such a large scale that if someone didn't understand them, they wouldn't be able to hide it very long. In a medical setting people use medical terminology and/or abbreviations every few seconds.
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Medical terminology abbreviations are often regulated by professional medical organizations, such as the American Medical Association (AMA) or the World Health Organization (WHO). These organizations establish guidelines and standards to ensure consistency and accuracy in medical communication. Healthcare facilities and educational institutions may also have their own policies for using medical terminology abbreviations.
Avice H. Kerr has written: 'Medical Hieroglyphs' 'Medical hieroglyphs; abbreviations and symbols' -- subject(s): Abbreviations, Medicine
P in medical abbreviations stands for the Latin "post" meaning "after." Similarly, a means before because the Latin word for "before" is "ante."
Rolf Heister has written: 'Lexicon of Hypertension' -- subject(s): Dictionaries, English, Hypertension 'Dictionary of abbreviations in medical sciences' -- subject(s): Abbreviations, Abbreviations of titles, Medical sciences, Medicine, Periodicals
Vag or pv are the medical abbreviations meaning vaginally.
In medical abbreviations, the plus sign ("+") is sometimes used to mean "and."
I think what is meant here is: "Is is permissible for doctors to use abbreviations in medical records?" The answer is, apparently yes, because they do so all the time.