Nylenna M
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 1989 Dec 10;109(34-36):3591-3.
We studied whether 141 doctors in the primary health service understood 13 unexplained abbreviations used in the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association. On average, 95% of the medical abbreviations and 42% of the administrative abbreviations were partly or completely understood (p much less than 0.001). The abbreviation JAMA was unknown to every third doctor, and SD to every fifth doctor. The use of abbreviations in medical literature should be limited, and abbreviations should not be allowed to become a hindrance to communication.
我们研究了141名基层医疗服务医生是否理解《挪威医学协会杂志》中使用的13个难以解释的缩写词。平均而言，95%的医学缩写词和42%的行政缩写词被部分或完全理解（p远小于0.001）。每三名医生中就有一名不知道缩写词JAMA，每五名医生中就有一名不知道缩写词SD。医学文献中缩写词的使用应受到限制，且不应让缩写词成为沟通的障碍。
