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insulin - Should sliding scale insulin be hyphenated? - mt


Posted: Jun 16, 2010

Should sliding scale insulin be hyphenated?

we were told to hyphenate very little - so I would not in this case

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It depends on how your account wants it, though, as usual.

Thanks - mt

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We have no instructions on hyphenating.


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