Girbes A C, Girbes A R J
LUMC, Leiden.
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2017;161:D1414.
Abbreviations are used more and more in physician common parlance and it seems they are on the way to becoming a new jargon. However, identical abbreviations may have different meanings, especially in different medical specialties. Moreover, many physicians do not know the meaning of specific abbreviations or are attributing the wrong meaning to the abbreviation. This will lead to misunderstanding and therefore danger to the patient. The authors are calling for a stop on the use of spoken abbreviations and for minimising the use of abbreviations in clinical notes and medical prescriptions.
缩写在医生的日常用语中使用得越来越频繁，而且似乎正逐渐演变成一种新的行话。然而，相同的缩写可能有不同的含义，尤其是在不同的医学专科中。此外，许多医生不知道特定缩写的含义，或者赋予了缩写错误的含义。这将导致误解，从而对患者构成危险。作者呼吁停止使用口头缩写，并尽量减少在临床记录和医疗处方中使用缩写。
