Why the alphabet soup in discharge summaries is a menace
With the typical summary containing 13 different short forms, GP registrar Dr Anna Coghlan says confusion is inevitable
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Dr Anna Coghlan recently exposed the alphabet soup frequently served up in hospital discharge summaries written for GPs.
As a junior doctor and now a GP registrar in Brisbane, she was the lead researcher on a recent study showing that a local hospital’s typical discharge letter had some 13 different abbreviations on average.