The list, which is part of the JCAHO’s 2006 National Patient Safety Goal initiative, is a response to a National Summit on Medical Abbreviations and extensive commentary by the public.

Have you ever taken an upside-down peek at your medical chart, ... Putting the Ack! in Medical Acronyms. By Rosie Mestel . April 30, 2001 12 AM PT . Share via Close extra sharing options.

Although the patient was not harmed, other abbreviation-related errors have resulted in serious injury and death, the article says. It focuses on studies of medical abbreviations by Dr. Neil Davis ...

The definite article is used before abbreviations of agencies — the FBI, the CIA — and nations — the U.S., the U.K. — but not before the abbreviations of universities’ names.

The MDU, which defends members' reputations when their clinical performance is called into question, advises doctors to use only the abbreviations or acronyms that are unambiguous and approved in ...

It features numerous specific terms, some of which may be synonyms for more common terms, but also often includes, as in the case of Penn jargon, many abbreviations, portmanteaus, and acronyms — a ...

From informal texts to published academic works, these common abbreviations appear everywhere. But do you know what they really mean? From Dr. to Dept., we rely on common abbreviations every day ...

Acronyms, contractions, and initialisms are special forms of abbreviations comprising the initial letters or other parts of several words that constitute a term. “Acronym: ...