Medical Abbreviations

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There are many reasons why they have the do not do list. Medical errors have identified the fourth most common case of patient deaths in the U.S. The Joint Commission issued an alert on the medical abbreviations. Its board approved it and made a list of abbreviations not to use. They created the list so that the abbreviations aren’t used in the wrong matter intended of its original usage. It’s about writing out the whole word instead of its abbreviation, making it stand for something else. If you were to encounter a problem like that, you need to immediately tell someone what the problem is so they can fix it. You will need to be careful about what you are doing so you don’t write the abbreviation and then someone mistaken it for something