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Acronyms and Abbreviations in Surgery and Medicine
The patient went from the ER to the OR and then to the ICU.” It is an irrefutable fact that doctors' speech is full of abbreviations. Healthcare professionals in general and surgeons in particular use at least ten abbreviations per minute (this is just a guesstimate; please don't quote us)...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7123046/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02965-3_10 |
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| description | The patient went from the ER to the OR and then to the ICU.” It is an irrefutable fact that doctors' speech is full of abbreviations. Healthcare professionals in general and surgeons in particular use at least ten abbreviations per minute (this is just a guesstimate; please don't quote us). This high prevalence has led us to consider medical abbreviations an important challenge. |
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| spelling | pubmed-71230462020-04-06 Acronyms and Abbreviations in Surgery and Medicine Surgical English Article The patient went from the ER to the OR and then to the ICU.” It is an irrefutable fact that doctors' speech is full of abbreviations. Healthcare professionals in general and surgeons in particular use at least ten abbreviations per minute (this is just a guesstimate; please don't quote us). This high prevalence has led us to consider medical abbreviations an important challenge. 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC7123046/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02965-3_10 Text en © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
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| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7123046/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02965-3_10 |