Claim: The acronyms in healthcare are considered jargon and is criticized for potentially leading to incorrect assumptions and medication errors which include an inaccurate or incomplete diagnosis or treatment of a disease, injury, syndrome, behavior, infection, or other ailment.
Evidence: Acronyms have been described as jargon. The use of acronyms to describe medical trials has been criticised as potentially leading to incorrect assumptions based on similar acronyms, difficulty accessing trial results when common words are used, and causing a cognitive bias when positive acronyms are used to portray trials (e.g. "HOPE" or "SMART"). Use of abbreviations, such as those relating to the route of administration or dose of a medication can be confusing and is the most common source of medication errors. and their use has been shown to impact the safety of patients in hospitals, owing to ambiguity and legibility.