Acronyms

[brielle.stark]

Hello! We have a question on coding the following very common acronyms that 
we see in the medical story:

CT
MRI
IV
ER

In the manual, it says:

8.6.3 Capitalization and Acronyms The MOR program depends on capitalization 
of the first letter to identify a word as a proper noun. Earlier versions 
of CHAT only allowed capital letters at the beginnings of words. This meant 
that transcribers had to write acronyms suc as FBI as F_B_I. However, that 
restriction has now been lifted and writing FBI is now correct. Other 
examples include MIT, CMU, USA, MTV, ET, and IU. More complicated acronyms 
may require underscores, as in C_three_PO and R_two_D_two. The recommended 
way of transcribing the common name for television is just tv. This form is 
not capitalized, since it is not a proper noun. Similarly, we can write cd, 
vcr, tv, and dvd. The underscore is the best mark for combinations that are 
not true compounds such as m_and_m-s for the M&M candy. Acronyms that are 
not actually spelled out when produced in conversation should be written as 
words. Thus UNESCO would be written as Unesco. The capitalization of the 
first letter is used to indicate the fact that it is is a proper noun. 
There must be no periods inside acronyms and titles, because these can be 
confused with utterance delimiters.

Are we thinking correctly that it should be:

i_v
m_r_i
c_t
e_r



Thank you!

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