Allied Health Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Practice Test

D/C most commonly stands for discontinue in medical notes. It tells the care team to stop a medication or a course of therapy—for example, D/C a drug means to remove it from the patient’s regimen. Discharge, meaning the patient leaves the hospital, is typically written as DC (often without the slash) or shown as Discharge/Discharged in different charting conventions. So the best interpretation in most clinical contexts is discontinue, with discharge handled by a different abbreviation.