According to the JCAHO, noncompliance with this prohibition remains one of the highest areas of noncompliance found by accreditation surveyors. It is likely that many of the readers have had some introduction to the Do Not Use list in their hospital practices. The list, which is part of the JCAHO’s 2006 National Patient Safety Goal initiative, is a response to a National Summit on Medical Abbreviations and extensive commentary by the public. In 2005, the JCAHO adopted a list of medical abbreviations that cannot be used by any JCAHO-accredited organizations and those seeking accreditation, which also apply to services that have been or are applying to be certified under the Disease-Specific Care Certification Program. As published in the Institute of Medicine’s groundbreaking report “To Err is Human,” medication errors are among the leading causes of preventable morbidity and mortality in the health care delivery setting. Physicians are routinely pressured to see more patients in a day, and the risk of improperly prescribing or committing other written errors grows exponentially. The first is the Do Not Use list promulgated by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) the second is what I call the Improper Notations in the Chart (INC). Until your practice becomes paperless, it is important to review two very important aspects of charting. Although physicians are notoriously late adopters of non-revenue producing technology, many have begun to migrate to computerized systems, with varying degrees of satisfaction. EMRs can minimize numerous human errors, including misinterpretations, erroneous transcriptions and unrecognized medication interactions.
I have advocated for the use of electronic medical records and so-called “e-prescribing,” in many professional publications. These kinds of cases are problematic for providers and their insurers, because of the collateral “damage” caused by the charting problems. If you continue to have this issue please contact to HealioĪs a medical malpractice attorney, I have seen hundreds of cases that turned on charting by a physician, nurse or other health care provider. Niews.We were unable to process your request. But if you write a second story about him, you cannot assume that readers will know the abbreviated name, Mr. Niews the rest of the time, your audience can easily understand that Mr. Niews for short and then refer to him as Mr.
If you refer to him by his full name once and then note that students call him Mr. For example, say you are writing a story about a teacher named Mr. Incident-specific abbreviations are created for use in one specific situation and thus require obvious references so the audience can understand their meaning. But be aware when you are writing for readers who do not share that common knowledge base that you will have to spell out abbreviations.
If you are writing for an audience that is familiar with a specific vocabulary that incorporates abbreviations-for example, readers with a strong military base-you can use those abbreviations freely. Topic- or Profession-Specific and Incident-Specific Abbreviations The following sections will clarify these two points.
You need to know two main things about abbreviations: when to use them and how to write them appropriately. You simply have to learn these differences through the experience of seeing specific examples in print. Some abbreviations or acronyms require a period (etc.), but quite a few never take periods (IBM or FBI). An example of an acronym is “FBI” for “Federal Bureau of Investigation.” Some multiword terms are abbreviated by using the first letter of each word and are called acronyms A multiword term that is abbreviated by using the first letter of each word. In its purest form, an abbreviation includes initial letters of a word followed by a period, such as “in.” for “inches.” However, many abbreviations skip over letters, such as “yd.” for “yard,” and are still written with a period. are shortened forms of words that are used for convenience or to manage space.