Usage of status post
This is
another common area where I see a lot of confusion. To be frank, there are people working in this
industry for so many years who do not even have an idea that status post can be
used with two meanings – with a comma before and without.
Eg.
Ovarian cancer status post chemotherapy and radiation
Is it that
the patient has cancer and underwent chemotherapy and radiation or is it whether
the patient had chemotherapy and radiation resulting in cancer??????? There is
definitely confusion here.
Now,
suppose I use punctuation??????
Ovarian cancer, status post chemotherapy and radiation.
The
meaning is clear. The patient first had
ovarian cancer, so was given chemotherapy and radiation.
The same
sentence if I write as follows……
Chemotherapy
and radiation, status post ovarian cancer.
This gives a wrong meaning again.
You do not give chemotherapy and radiation and then the patient gets
ovarian cancer.
Chemotherapy
and radiation status post ovarian cancer.
Without the comma here, the meaning is right.
A comma makes a lot of difference in meaning with the phrase "status post."..............SO BE CAREFUL.
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So, does it mean: X, status post y = y status post x ?
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or
40yo, G2P2, 2 wks s/p SVD, here for PPD eval.
The patient gave birth 2 wks ago. Does the "2 wks" go before "s/p" or after?