today (20 may), i made one mistake about latin abbreviation used in prescription in my Orientation to Pharmacy Practice paper.. it was my second online paper for first year MPharm and the first subjective questions online paper (10 short answer and 4 short essay)... in real life, this latin abbreviation mistake may cause harm to patient, so i decide to write down this post to remind myself so that i do not repeat the same mistake
the question is: qqh =??
i wrote "take four times daily", which is a wrong answer
the correct answer for qqh is "take every four hours"
also, some revision:
prn - "take when required"
sos - "take if necessary"
stat- "take immediately"
ac - "before food"
cc - " with food"
pc - "after food"
on - "at night"
mane - "in the morning"
noct - "at night"
hs - "take at bed time"
mdu - "take as directed"
od- "once daily"
bd- "twice daily"
tds- "three times daily"
qds- "four times daily"
mn - "morning and night"
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