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The Charles Press Handbook of Current Medical Abbreviations

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This paperback handbook is a compact reference for medical acronyms and abbreviations. It is small but rugged for constant desk use. There are hundreds of common and hard-to-find abbreviations that appear in doctor's shorthand and patient chart notations. Medical transcriptionists and medical coders will find this handbook very valuable in deciphering surgery and anesthesia records. I recommend this book for every medical office or homeworker.

I am a nurse in a major urban hospital who is constantly having to decipher all kinds of abbreviations. I have used many many different abbreviations dictionaries and I particularly like this one for several reasons:
1) It gives the only clinical abbreviations that are most commonly encountered in my work, so I don't have to wade through endless choices that wouldn't be applicable anyway
2) Much more accurate than other abbrev. dictionaries (you cannot imagine the mistakes I have come across in very popular dictionaries such as Stedman's and Mosby's!!). I have seen a few minor errors in this dictionary, but far fewer than other dictionaries
3)The type is large enough to read
4) Price is great
So, all in all, I highly recommend this dictionary to any health care professional, and believe me, I know of what I speak!

I'm currently training to become a Pharmacy Technician, and this book has a wealth of information I constantly tap into. A great resource for anybody in the health field!

Even though this dictionary is not as "big" as Mosby's and Stedman's, it is much better. It is much more up-to-date (the others have so much antiquated material it is ridiculous), it has more clinical abbreviations,is very easy to use and cheaper too. What more could you ask. I highly recommend it!

I rely heavily on this abbreviations dictionary and have referred to on a daily basis for many years. I have recommended it to all of my colleagues (medical transcriptionists) and they agree that it is focused on the information we need, making work a lot easier. Even though it came out in 1997, it serves us very well in our daily work, although I must say, we are all looking forward to the new edition!