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→Tailoring: Acronyms
If a certain grammatical rule has a risk of making the report less clear to the reader, ignore it.
Restrict acronyms/abbreviations to those who are certainly well known among all doctors, such as "cm".<ref name="NarodAhmed2016" group="notes">Acronyms/abbreviations increase reading speed only if the reader is familiar with the abbreviated terms:<br>- {{cite journal|last1=Narod|first1=S.A.|last2=Ahmed|first2=H.|last3=Akbari|first3=M.R.|title=Countercurrents: Do acronyms belong in the medical literature?|journal=Current Oncology|volume=23|issue=5|year=2016|pages=295|issn=1718-7729|doi=10.3747/co.23.3122}}</ref>
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