Doctor's using abbreviations in medical notes are putting their patients' lives at risk, health experts have warned. The UK's Medical Defence Union said that difficulties often arose because ...

Doctors are being warned that using abbreviations in medical notes is putting patients' lives at risk. The UK's Medical Defence Union said difficulties often arose because abbreviations can have more ...

One patient read the notes from her colonoscopy report ... the words “follow up” when noting a patient’s medical record. OD: This abbreviation for the Latin term “oculus dexter ...

The medical abbreviation QID means four times a day ... Your prescription may come with the note "QID while awake" or something similar to clarify that this is the case. The following times ...

Abbreviations in doctors’ notes can cause communication difficulties with other health professionals, a medical legal expert has warned. Dr Sally Old, medico-legal advisor at the Medical Defence Union ...

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 ...