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Sun Sep 19 17:17:18 BST 2004

isnt that phbc pedestrian hit by car

Mike MacKinnon
mmackinnon at cox.net
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From: Trauma & Critical Care mailing list
Date: 09/19/04 08:47:34
To: Trauma & Critical Care mailing list
Subject: Re: Inappropriate acronyms

Alan--
A good topic--actually, all accredited hospitals in the states are required
to eliminate all but the most common and accepted acronyms/abbreviations
from the medical record by JCAHO, but it continues to amaze me how they just
continue to seep in.  And it cannot be explained by anything but galling
arrogance that someone can write such abbreviations in the chart that nobody
but them have any idea as to its meaning, obviously without the slightest
inkling that others read these records other than they--to give an
expample--a resident wrote the following abbreviation in the H&P of a trauma
patient just the other night, and was aghast that nobody besides her
alone--her attending with 25 years of experience, any of the experienced
trauma nurses, any other resident, the janitor, etc--had the slightest idea
what it meant--"PHBC"
Anyone hazard a guess as to what she meant by this, to show me what a klutz
I must be not to have seen it right off?
Answer is a few spaces below:
ERF

Answer:

Patient Hit By Car  !!!!
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