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stress test - METS - 1mt
Posted: Mar 14, 2010
Would like anyone's opinion regarding how METS should be typed in reference to a stress test. I have been typing it as METS for yrs and yrs, now on a newer account it was corrected to METs. I've found it both ways when researching. TIA for input.
It's METs, plural for metabolic equivalent unit. The S doesn't stand for anything. - NM
[ In Reply To ..]nm
Stedman's - sm
[ In Reply To ..]METS
metabolic equivalents (multiples of resting oxygen consumption)
metastases also mets, Mets
My Stedman's (both the dictionary and the Cardiac Words) show only MET, no METs. - SM
[ In Reply To ..]Of course, it wouldn't be the first error found in Stedman's (whatever reference you're looking at ... just "Stedman's" doesn't say much, though I see METS in that stupid Benchmark KB thing that the AHDI has foisted upon MTs for big bucks. :-) To capitalize the "s" when speaking of MET in the plural is simply nonsensical and, indeed, goes against their own advice, if so:
"Use a lowercase s without an apostrophe to form the plural of capitalized abbreviations, acronyms, and brief forms."
In short, it's METs. :-)
METS in Stedman's Abbreviations 3E - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Stedman's Abbreviations has it as METS and MET, although I have several Stedman's references and they often contradict themselves, so I don't fully rely on them.
My doctor corrected me from METS to METs - use METs
[ In Reply To ..]I just started doing stress tests and typed it METS. The next time he dictated, he said specifically... "and it is big M big E big T little s."
Use METs
METS - 1mt
[ In Reply To ..]THANKS EVERYONE
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