The medical field is the field that every caregiver must be very careful in as people’s lives depend on it. It is very easy for one to make mistakes that may cause someone’s life if proper precautions are not taken. Every year, thousands of people died from medical errors, which include; misdiagnosis, prescription error, medical abbreviation error, malpractice, so on and so forth. Despite all efforts to decrease these numbers they keep on going up. Medical abbreviations error may seem minor, but the outcome result in harmful medication errors. There are hundreds of medical abbreviations error, but I decide to discuss the danger of using q.o.d or QOD instead of using, “use every other day”. This medical abbreviation is mistaken as “q.d”
