Abbreviations in Medicine

Translation of Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations (AIA) in Persian Political and Sport Journalistic Texts

The different writing systems of English and Persian makes translation of acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations challenging. This study aimed at finding which strategies were applied most frequently in translating acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations from English to Persian especially in journalistic texts. The study was done based n Descriptive Translation Study of Toury and strategies pr...

The use of abbreviations in surgical note keeping

Abbreviations are used to improve the speed of note keeping and to simplify patient notes. However studies have shown that they can reduce clarity, increase mistakes and cause confusion in management plans. Our review highlights the misuse of abbreviations in surgical note keeping.

Dictionary of Abbreviations in Medicine and the Related Sciences

Methods for Building Sense Inventories of Abbreviations in Clinical Notes

OBJECTIVE To develop methods for building corpus-specific sense inventories of abbreviations occurring in clinical documents. DESIGN A corpus of internal medicine admission notes was collected and instances of each clinical abbreviation in the corpus were clustered to different sense clusters. One instance from each cluster was manually annotated to generate a final list of senses. Two cluste...

A metabolic phenotype based on mitochondrial ribosomal protein expression as a predictor of lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma: erratum.

[In the article "A Metabolic Phenotype Based on Mitochondrial Ribosomal Protein Expression as a Predictor of Lymph Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma", which appeared in Volume 94, Issue 2 of Medicine, several abbreviations were left undefined in figure and table legends. The article has since been corrected online.].

Department of Neurosurgery Department of Intensive Care Helsinki University Central Hospital and Faculty of Medicine Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research University of Helsinki

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