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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Answer: one of the seven health skills is
Accessing information .
Knowledge they say is power, by having access to information, we are able to know the danger of certain behaviors we protray, so the need to safe guide our health arises, making us werry of some risk behavior, therefore improvement in health is achieved.
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Well there are several terms... I could say BSI (Body Substance Isolation) or you could say standard precautions.
