Common ward shorthand — write out for clarity if any ambiguity.
Frequencies
- OD / QD
- Once daily
- BD / BID
- Twice daily
- TDS / TID
- Three times daily
- QDS / QID
- Four times daily
- PRN
- As required
- STAT
- Immediately
- Mane / Nocte
- Morning / night
Routes
- PO
- By mouth
- IV / IM / SC
- IV / intramuscular / subcut
- PR / PV
- Per rectum / per vagina
- SL / TOP
- Sublingual / topical
- NEB / INH
- Nebulised / inhaled
Common clinical
- SOB / DIB
- Short of breath / difficulty in breathing
- HPC / PMH / DH / SH
- History of presenting / past medical / drug / social
- O/E
- On examination
- NAD
- No abnormality detected
- NKDA
- No known drug allergy
- TWOC
- Trial without catheter
