Tuesday, June 02, 2009
A recent article in the NY Times addressed the link between the use of PPI's and pneumonia. The study, which was published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, indicated that those on PPI medications had 30% greater the risk of developing hospital acquired pneumonias than the gro...
Although many people are familiar with the acronym, it is always good writing practice to include the word with the acronym after it the first time it is used in the article. A new reader may be very confused by the term PPI without spelling out the meaning.