The abbreviation squeeze: the proliferation of medical shorthand is a strain on health professionals and a risk to patients

Article Abstract:

Misunderstandings created because of medical abbreviations may result in up to 350 patient deaths annually. Many abbreviations denote more than one medical term, sometimes leading to confusion. Many other mistakes occur when physicians from different specialty communicate with physicians from another where the same abbreviation denotes a different term. Physicians must learn to sacrifice the convenience of abbreviations to improve communication and the safety of their patients.

Usage, Abbreviations

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Heart games

Article Abstract:

Dr F. Stuart Sanders' wellness program in Habersham County, GA, includes classes in yoga and writing, in addition to cancer screening, exercise and rehabilitation of cardiac and pulmonary patients. The doctor and his associates have gradually added to their program, which now includes volleyball and supervised exercise in a school gymnasium. Honors won by Sanders include a $7,500 grant from SmithKline Beecham Consumer Brands for prevention of cardiovascular disease.

Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Physiological aspects, Exercise therapy, Cardiac patients, Sanders, F. Stuart

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Help patients slim down, shape up - and shift attitudes

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Physicians will have to deal with increasing requests for help with weight control help because of advances in obesity research and related health issues that have been reported in the media. In Dec, 1994, a gene regulating fat storage in mice was isolated, commercial diet programs were told to be more accountable and C. Everett Koop, the former Surgeon General, launched a campaign against obesity.

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Research and Testing Services, Medical Research, Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Research, Weight loss

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