The authors also found that the use of abbreviations was inconsistent - 15% of the abbreviations used in medical notes appeared in the hospital's intranet dictionary while 17% appeared in a medical ...

15 percent of the abbreviations used in medical notes appeared in the hospital's intranet dictionary while 17 percent appeared in a medical dictionary used by paediatric secretaries ...

The boom in after-hours medical services is raising concerns about the "uberisation" of medicine.Credit: Virginia Star After compiling a list of 321 abbreviations used in 200 discharge letters ...

to complete the dictionary. It includes popular Internet abbreviations like, C-Y-L for “see you later” and B-T-W for “by the way.” Wachal says one medical abbreviation was included which ...