TY - JOUR T1 - BCWA: don’t we love abbreviations and acronyms! JF - European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy JO - Eur J Hosp Pharm SP - 241 LP - 241 DO - 10.1136/ejhpharm-2021-002981 VL - 28 IS - 5 AU - Philip Wiffen Y1 - 2021/09/01 UR - http://ejhp.bmj.com/content/28/5/241.abstract N2 - Intriguing? Confusing? Annoying? Abbreviations are a shortening of a word often to a letter or two so pharmacists will be familiar with Latin abbreviations such as tds. An acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of other words. In practice, it seems the two terms are somewhat interchangeable.This editorial is one of my occasional trips into encouraging authors to compose good papers. The editorial on abstracts is still widely used.1 I have noticed an increasing number of abbreviations/acronyms creeping into submissions, often created by the authors themselves and not in use anywhere else. I … Correspondence to Professor Philip Wiffen, Pain Research Unit, Churchill Hospital, Oxford OX3 7LE, UK; pwiffen{at}oxfordsrs.org.uk ER -