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The Ambiguous Medical Abbreviation (AMA) Study ‐ Challenges and Opportunities
2019
Internal medicine journal (Print)
Healthcare workers often abbreviate for convenience, but ambiguous abbreviations may cause miscommunication, which jeopardises patient care. Robust large-scale research to quantify abbreviation frequency and ambiguity in medical documents is lacking. To calculate the frequency of abbreviations used in discharge summaries, the proportion of these abbreviations that are ambiguous and the potential utility of auto-expansion software. We designed a software programme to extract all instances of
doi:10.1111/imj.14442
pmid:31389137
fatcat:wbswb7u3wzg5ld7oe6xipmlshi