It would be terrific if everyone used the same abbreviations, wouldn’t it?
I’ve seen tx use to also mean transplant. Rx can be used to designate treatment or prescription.
r/o can also mean rule out as in rule out congesive heart failure.
I’ve also seen ppl used as an abbreviation for people.
By the way, if you read “SOB” in your chart, don’t get mad. It doesn’t mean what you think. In the medical context it means short of breath.
On this site, we commonly use HHD to mean home hemodialysis, SDHD to abbreviate short daily hemodialysis, NHHD to mean nocturnal home hemodialysis.
Sometimes you just have read the abbreviation in the sentence and go by context.