Talk:List of medical abbreviations

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This page is full of improperly capitalized edit links -- I will have to go through it later. Any help would be greatly appreciated. --maveric149

Should acronyms such as AMA really go on this page? They're listed as American Medical Association etc but they could equally well be the Australian Medical Association. It seems a little umm overly specific to have them here - if we added the appropriate acronmyms for every country the list would be as long as my arm! IMO this list should stick to medical terminology, with a seperate one for medical organisations of various countries. ~ KJ

This page should be moved to: List of medical acronyms and abbreviations, as some of thease are no acronyms but are abbreviations, as an acronym makes a word eg POSH (Port Out Starbard Home) while an abbrevation does not made a word eg AD (Anno Dommini)..

NOS stands for "Not Otherwise Specified" in many standardized clinical coding lexicons. ~Felinity

FWIW, I believe that anything that might show up on a patient's chart is fair game for inclusion here. Also, "Resident's talk", which may not show on a chart, but much of which is designed to quickly convey essential information to their fellows. Pproctor 23:48, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

I've done some cleanup, will do more later. Perel 10:57, 5 December 2006 (UTC)