This article contains a list of commonly used medical abbreviations and acronyms that start with the letter Q and may be encountered in medicine and radiology (please keep the main list and any sublists in alphabetic order).
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Q
q: long arm of a chromosome
QA: quality assurance
QALY: quality-adjusted life year
QBC: quadrature body coil (Philips)
QDS: four times a day (drug prescriptions, from Latin: quater die sumendus)
QH: every hour (drug prescriptions, from Latin: quaque hora)
QHS: every night at bedtime (drug prescriptions, from Latin: quaque hora somni)
QI: quality improvement
QIP: quality improvement project
QISS: quiescent interval for single shot (Siemens)
QN: every night (drug prescriptions, from Latin: quaque nocte)
QoL: quality of life
QRAPMASTER: quantification of relaxation times and proton density by multi-echo acquisition of a saturation-recovery using turbo spin echo readout
qv: please see (Latin: quod vide)
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