Abbreviation list #8

Q2H

• Every 2 hours

• Every 3 hours

• Every 4 hours

-plasty

• Surgical repair or Plastic surgery

• Tumor or Swelling

• Head of Bed

-oma

• Every "2 hours"

• Gerontology, Geriatrics, or Elderly

• Tumor or Swelling

QID

• Four times a day

• 1 time a day

• 3 times a day

HOB

• head of bed

• between

• around

D/C

• "Four" times a day

• Discharge or Discontinue

• Between

QHS

• every "hours sleep" or "at bedtime"

• Surgical repair

• Elderly

-itis

• inflammation

• discharge or discontinue

• pain

• low or slow

algia

• pain

• low

• slow

Inter

• between

• pain

• around