Dangerous Abbreviations

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Health practitioners, authors, and editors must exercise due diligence in creating an abbreviation or they may cause situations similar to the ones shown below. Another possibility is not to abbreviate the phrase.

• MedAbbrev's Do Not Use List
• Examples of abbreviations that have contradictory or ambiguous meanings
• Abbreviations and symbols that have been misread or interpreted in an unintended manner

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