The article by Sheppard and colleagues1 in the March issue of Archives of Diseases in Childhood describes the overuse of ambiguous abbreviations in paediatric note taking. Reading this article led one of us to review a clinic note written earlier in the day describing a "2 yo P here for a RPE w/a recent URI. who c/o ear pain y/d". On further inspection, this note was found to contain 35 abbreviations, all of which were completely unambiguous to the author when the note was written. However, many could certainly cause confusion should any other healthcare providers require information to make clinical decisions about this patient in the future.
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