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Is pneumonia ever abbreviated as PNA? - Old part-timer

Posted: Mar 15, 2011

It definitely sounds like she's saying PNA but we are not supposed to use abbreviations in diagnoses and according to the rest of the report, the patient has pneumonia. Or is this an abbreviation for a kind of pneumonia?

Any help would be appreciated.

Yes it is. Link inside to abbreviation site. - sm

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