The OB Chart Desk: GTPAL and the Abbreviation Layer

Obstetric charting opens with two numbers that get confused more than any other pair in the specialty, and then buries the rest of the history in abbreviations. Read each history and set G, T, P, A and L yourself — remembering that para counts pregnancies, not babies — then switch to Read the chart and expand every abbreviation in a real admission note, one tap at a time.