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has anyone's company stopped using b.i.d.? - sm


Posted: Jan 11, 2013

On a recent transcription test I was informed that it was not used by that facility anymore.  Just curious if it was particular to them or a new thing I have not heard of. 

Is it just that particular abbreviation - or has the facility

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stopped using all abbreviations for Latin phrases? Some facilities are going to "plain English" terminology to avoid ambiguity or confusion, which makes sense. Just eliminating "b.i.d." and nothing else would be weird.

what does the proverbial - BOS say???

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nm

Just that it discourages dropping the periods. - It is still in BOS 3.

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9.2.3 Punctuation/Possession
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Use periods in lowercase drug-related abbreviations derived from Latin terms.

EXAMPLE
b.i.d. t.i.d. a.c.
p.r.n. p.o. q.4 h.

Note: AHDI continues to discourage dropping periods in lowercase abbreviations that might be misread as words (bid and tid).

My company - MT

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has a policy in place driven by the clients that none of these abbrv is used. We're required to spell them all out. so b.i.d. is twice a day, two times a day, twice daily, etc.


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