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A

Abbreviations

• Measurements: abbreviate mg, g, ml, m, km, cm and mm, but spell out inch, feet, foot, yards and miles. Symbols may be used if space is tight. (ie. a 30’ x 40’ pool)
• States: Follow Associated Press style with periods, i.e. Va., Ill., Colo., etc.
• University of Virginia: Use UVA  

Acronyms

• The following are pronounced as a word: CAD (cardiovascular disease), MIRS (medical information referral system), SCOPE (supply chain optimization and process excellence), RAM (Remote Area Medical), FEAP (Faculty and Employee Assistance Program)

B

Bimonthly is one word, non-hyphenated.

Blue Ridge Poison Center  NOT Blue Ridge Poison Control Center

Bulleted lists

• Lists that include complete sentences should end in appropriate punctuation. (example)
  • The physician gave new parents the following advice:
    • Babies should always sleep on their backs.
    • Toddlers should take at least one nap per day.
• Lists that are comprised of fragmented sentences do not require punctuation after each bullet. Do include period at the end of the list. (example)
  • The physician recommended that the patient eat the following after surgery:
    • One 8-oz. glass of water every two hours
    • One cup pureed fruit.

Business letters

• Use the Block style (all elements flush left) or Modified Block (paragraphs in the body are indented).
• Letter format/spacing:
  • Heading contains the date and then 2 hard returns
  • Inside address includes the name and address of the person to whom the letter is being sent and is followed by 2 hard returns
  • Salutation/greeting is always formal (usually beginning with “Dear”) and ends in a colon. Followed by 2 hard returns.
  • Body – skip a line between paragraphs and enter 2 hard returns between the body and the closing.
  • Complimentary close ends with a comma, followed by 2-3 hard returns between closing and signature line.
  • Signature should start directly above the signature line.

C

CAD

• Acronym for cardiovascular disease; pronounce as a word

Cancer Center  

• Use Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center for new building -- ok to use Cancer Center on second reference

Capitalization

• Medical School best prices cialis brand are always capitalized (ie. Department of Pediatrics); use ‘school’ or ‘department’ on second reference
• best prices cialis brand within a department are capitalized if it’s a proper name (ie. Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery Division within the Department of Surgery)
• best prices cialis brand are always lower case (ie. cardiology, psychiatry, pediatrics)
• best prices cialis brand are always capitalized (ie. Heart & Vascular Center, Cancer Center)
• best prices cialis brand is lower case except when it’s Primary Care Center
• best prices cialis brand is always capitalized if referring to the UVA Medical Center and not medical centers in general. Can use ‘center’ on second reference if it’s clear you are referring to UVA Medical Center.
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  • Central, Northern and Southwestern Virginia, Tidewater, Piedmont, Hampton Roads, Southside, Shenandoah Valley, etc.
  • U.S. 29, U.S. 33, U.S. 250, Interstate 64 (I-64 on second reference)
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  • Chair as a title is usually not capitalized and is not used preceding a name. (ie President John Casteen is correct; Chair William Jones is not correct)
  • Named or endowed professorships are always capitalized. (ie. William Jones, MD, Thomas Branton Harris Professor of Pediatric Medicine)
  • Nurse ranks or clinician levels are not capitalized (ie. Judy Blanchett, RN, a clinician III, works in the Burn Center.)
  • Professors are not capitalized (ie. William Jones, MD, an assistant professor of internal medicine.)
  • Resident is not capitalized (ie. Dr. William Jones, a second-year resident)
  • Fellow is not capitalized (ie. Dr. William Jones, a visiting fellow in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery)

Chair as a title is usually not capitalized and is not used preceding a name. (ie. President John Casteen is correct; Chair William Jones is not correct.)

Children’s Hospital 

• Use UVA Children’s Hospital NOT UVA Children’s Medical Center

co-chair

co-director

co-morbidities

countrywide

Commas 

• Do not use serial commas (ie. She went skiing, snowboarding and sledding in a single afternoon.)
• Follow AP Stylebook usage
• No comma before Jr.

Compound Adjectives are always hyphenated (ie. four-color capability, three-state area)

D

Dashes

• Use en dashes with spaces for emphasis/pause in copy (ie. The time will come – in the next decade – when we will find a cure for cancer.)
• Use single dash without spaces for ranges (ie. from 2-4 p.m.)

Dates

• When listing dates, use the following format: week day, month day, year (ie. Friday, January 1, 2009)
• Spell out days of the week. However, if the day is part of a complete date (ie. Monday, April 6), day can abbreviated if space is limited

Department Names are always capitalized (ie. Department of Pediatrics); use ‘school’ or ‘department’ on second reference.

Diabetes type 1 or type 2 diabetes NOT Type I/Type II or Type 1/Type 2

Dining Conference Rooms 1,2 or 3 NOT A, B or C

Disciplines are always lower case (ie. cardiology, psychiatry, pediatrics)

Divisions within a department are capitalized if it’s a proper name (ie. Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery Division within the Department of Surgery)

Dr.

• Do not use both Dr. and MD with a person’s name; it’s one or the other
• PhDs are not referred to as ‘Dr.’ at UVA, but in some situations you may have to use your own judgment
• It’s ok to refer to someone with an MD as ‘Dr.’ but do not refer to someone with an RN as ‘Nurse.’ (ie. Dr. Jones but  NOT Nurse Blanchett or Technologist Blanchett)

E

email  

• No hyphen in the word ‘email’
• Do not break email addresses unless absolutely necessary and then only after a ‘dot’ or ‘@’

Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center
Use Cancer Center on second reference

F

FAAN no periods

FAACP no periods

FEAP
Faculty and Employee Assistance Program

feet/foot spell out/do not abbreviate unless space is tight

fellow is not capitalized (ie. Dr. William Jones, a visiting fellow in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery)

G

GYN/ONC correct even though not an acronym

Grounds capitalize when referring to UVA Grounds

H

healthcare NOT health care

Health Sciences Center do not use unless referring to past names

Health System may be used as subsequent reference in internal publications for UVA Health System

Heart & Vascular Center capitalize; website is uvaheart.com

http:// do not use in website addresses

Hyphens 

• Refer to AP Stylebook and Webster’s Dictionary for usage
• Compound adjectives are always hyphenated (ie. four-color capability, three-state area) 
• Some commonly misused words include:
  • bimonthly
  • cardiovascular
  • co-chair (or co-director)
  • co-morbidities
  • email
  • healthcare
  • inpatient
  • online
  • outpatient
  • multicelled
  • multidiscipline
  • multistory
  • multi-image (two vowels together)
  • nonpaying
  • postgraduate
  • T-cell
  • Toll-free
  • Website
  • X-ray
  • -wide typically has no hyphen (ie. hospitalwide, industrywide, nationwide, universitywide, worldwide)
  • wide- typically does include a hyphen (ie. wide-eyed, wide-angle BUT widespread)

I

industrywide no hyphen
inpatient no hyphen

Interstate 64
I-64 on second reference

Italics

• Italicize magazine and journal names (use quotes for journal article titles – ie. “His article, ‘Redefining Health Care’ appeared in the journal Pediatrics.”)

J

Jargon 
Avoid medical jargon when writing for a general audience (ie. ambulatory, inpatient, outpatient)

K

KnowledgeLink employee website – can be referred to as Klink. URL is klinkuva.com

M

Maps and directions found at healthsystem.virginia.edu/maps

Maternal-fetal medicine NOT maternal fetal medicine or maternal/fetal medicine

Medical Center is always capitalized if referring to UVA Medical Center and not medical centers in general. Can be called the ‘Center’ on second reference if it’s clear you’re referring to UVA Medical Center.

Medical School department names are always capitalized; use ‘school’ or ‘department’ on second reference. (ie. Department of Medicine)

MD

• no periods 
• use after a person’s name in first mention only then use last name
• do not use both Dr. and MD in a person’s name
• Ok to refer to someone with an MD as “Dr.”

Multicelled no hyphen

Multidiscipline no hyphen

Multistory no hyphen

Multi-image two vowels together require hyphen

N

Nicknames Do not use the following nicknames for locations: old hospital, multistory, Hospital West or Hospital East. Correct names are University Hospital and West Complex.

Nurse

• RN does not require periods; use in first reference only
• Ranks or clinician levels are not capitalized (ie. Judy Blanchett, RN, a clinician III, works in the Burn Center.)
• Do not refer to someone with an RN as “Nurse.” (ie. “Nurse Judy Blanchett” is incorrect)

Numbers and Quantities

• Spell out one to nine; for 10 and over, use the numeral.
• When using numbers in quotes, it’s best to spell out (ie. “The appropriate dosage is twenty-five milligrams per day,” he said.)
• Percent is spelled out; do not use %
• Spell out numbers at the beginning of a sentence or rewrite, except for years. (ie. 1968 was a very good year.)
• Spell out ordinals first, second and so on but it’s World War II, 21st century.
• Abbreviate mg, g, ml, m, km, cm and mm, but spell out inch, feet, foot, yards and miles. Symbols may be used when space is tight (ie. a 30’ x 40’ pool).
• Phone/fax numbers
  • Use periods rather than hyphens in phone numbers (ie. 434.990.8319)
  • Do not put area code in parentheses 
  • Use parentheses for numbers like 434.924.DOCS (3627)
  • Include area code when space allows for local numbers; may be deleted if area code is 434
  • Different phone numbers are used for different audiences (ie. for external audiences, Nurse Recruiting phone number is 866.RNS.4UVA, Physician Direct number is 800.552.3723 and Vim & Vigor is 888.882.9892.) 
• Times
  • Standard, not Military
  • Use periods for a.m. and p.m.; both lower case
  • Use noon for 12 p.m.
  • Use single dash to separate range (5-6 p.m.)
  • Do not use :00

O

OB/GYN correct even though it’s not an acronym

Online Physician Directory uvaphysiciandirect.com (for physicians) or uvahealth.com (for consumers)

Orthopaedics NOT orthopedics

OT Occupational Therapy

Outpatient no hyphen

P

Percent spell out, do not use %

Periods

• Initials: in general, two initials take periods, three do not (ie. U.S., FBI, T.S. Eliot, JFK). When in doubt, go with preference of person being identified.
• Professional degrees with two letters usually take periods but we do not use them for internal publications (ie. MD, RN, PhD); three-letter degrees do not take periods (ie. MPH, FAACP, MSN)
• Use periods for a.m. and p.m.

Phone/Fax numbers

• Use periods rather than hyphens in phone numbers (ie. 434.990.8319)
• Do not put area code in parentheses
• Use parentheses for numbers like 434.924.DOCS (3627)
• Include area code when space allows for local numbers; may be deleted if area code is 434
• Different phone numbers are used for different audiences (ie. for external audiences, Nurse Recruiting phone number is 866.RNS.4UVA, Physician Direct number is 800.552.3723 and Vim & Vigor is 888.882.9892.)

Piedmont capitalize

postgraduate no hyphen

primary care is lower case except when referring to Primary Care Center.

professor    

• Professors are not capitalized (ie. William Jones, MD, an assistant professor of internal medicine.)
• We seldom use professor ranks before a name as a title, although it is not incorrect (ie. “An associate professor in the Department of Surgery, Susan Jones, PhD, designed a program …” vs. “Associate Professor Susan Jones, PhD”
• Named or endowed professorships are always capitalized (ie. William Jones, MD, Thomas Branton Harris Professor of Pediatric Medicine)

Q

Quotes
Put punctuation inside quote marks (ie. “I love pizza,” says John.)

R

RAM acronym for Remote Area Medical clinic

resident is not capitalized (ie. Dr. William Jones, a second-year resident)

runner-up or runners-up use hyphen

S

Seasons lowercase spring, summer, winter, fall or springtime, wintertime, etc. unless part of a title like Winter Olympics.

Second-rate use hyphen

Self- always hyphenate (ie. self-assured, self-defense)

Set up (v.) and setup (n. and adj.)

Spacing
Use only one space after a period, colon or semicolon.

Specialized centers  are always capitalized (ie. Heart & Vascular Center, Cancer Center, Children’s Hospital)

Statewide no hyphen

T

T-cell use hyphen

Titles

• Chair as a title is usually not capitalized and is not used preceding a name. (ie. President John Casteen is correct; Chair William Jones is not correct)
• Named or endowed professorships are always capitalized. (ie. William Jones, MD, Thomas Branton Harris Professor of Pediatric Medicine)
• Nurse ranks or pay grades are not capitalized (ie. Judy Blanchett, RN, a clinician III, works in the Burn Center.)
• Professors are not capitalized (ie. William Jones, MD, an assistant professor of internal medicine.)
• Resident is not capitalized (ie. Dr. William Jones, a second-year resident)
• Fellow is not capitalized (ie. Dr. William Jones, a visiting fellow in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery)

toll-free use hyphen

U

UVA Health System

Use the name “University of Virginia Health System” for all elements of our organization. For example: the Cancer Center at the University of Virginia Health System.

• Spell out University of Virginia Health System on first reference. For subsequent references, use UVA Health System or UVA.
• Use UVA or UVA Health System NOT UVa, U.Va. or UVAHS

 

W

www do not use in website addresses (ie. uvahealth.com)

websites

• Commonly used websites for the UVA Health System include:
  • best prices cialis brand UVA Health System home page
  • best prices cialis brand  Heart & Vascular Center
  • best prices cialis brand Link internal newsletter
  • best prices cialis brand Employee site
  • best prices cialis brand Club Red site
  • best prices cialis brand Online Physician Directory
  • best prices cialis brand Recruitment site
  • best prices cialis brand Cancer Center

West Complex  this is correct; do not use old hospital or hospital west

-wide typically has no hyphen (ie. hospitalwide, industrywide, nationwide, universitywide, worldwide)

wide- typically does include a hyphen (ie. wide-eyed, wide-angle BUT widespread)

World Wide Web capitalize, a registered name