Medical abbreviations are still commonly used in healthcare settings because using abbreviations saves time and space while writing medical records of patients, as well as they allow some privacy because mostly only professionals can understand these abbreviations.
These abbreviations are useful but they have their cons too, as they can create confusion because one abbreviation can have more than one contradictory meaning. which can lead to miscommunication of information. This can be dangerous in healthcare settings.
To increase the safety of using medical abbreviations a national or standard list of abbreviations should be created by the healthcare and government organizations to ensure that one abbreviation has only one meaning and to avoid confusion.
Another thing can be to limit the unnecessary usage of abbreviations because it can lead to miscommunication.
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