ABRV (or Abbrevobabble Revisited)

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Corballis MC The evolution of language. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2009;1156:19-43.

Fischer R. Lexical Change in Present-Day English: A Corpus-Based Study of the Motivation, Institutionalization, and Productivity of Creative Neologisms. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag; 1998.

AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors. 10th ed. New York, NY: Oxford Press ; 2007:441-528.

Kohn LT , Corrigan JM , Donaldson MS , eds. To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 2000 .

Kushlan JA Use and abuse of abbreviations in technical communication. J Child Neurol. 1995;10(1):1-3.

Brumback RA Worshiping false idols: the impact factor dilemma. J Child Neurol. 2008;23(4):365-367.

Brumback RA Success at publishing in biomedical journal: hints for a journal editor. J Child Neurol. 2009;24(3):370-378.

Bloom DA Acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms. BJU Int. 2000;86(1):1-6.

Brubaker RF , Brubaker JH Does somebody else out there hate acronyms? Arch Ophthalmol. 1999;117(5):701-702.

Cheng TO Acronymophilia. BMJ. 1994;309(6956):683-684.

Cheng TO Plea to let each acronym be spelled out every time (PLEASE). Eur Heart J. 1995;16(2):292.

Farber HJ On the abuse of acronyms. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2002;166(12 pt 1):1607-1608.

Fred HL , Cheng TO Acronymesis: the exploding misuse of acronyms. Tex Heart Inst J. 2003;30(4):255-257.

Kerr NL HARKing: hypothesizing after the results are known. Pers Soc Psychol Rev. 1998;2(3):196-217.

Isaacs D. , Fitzgerald D. Acronymophilia: an update. Arch Dis Child. 2000;83(6):517-518.

Patel CB , Rashid RM Averting the proliferation of acronymophilia in dermatology: effectively avoiding ADCOMSUBORD-COMPHIBSPAC. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2009;60(2):340-344.

Brumback R. A new journal for a medical specialty that has come of age. J Child Neurol. 1986;1(1):2.