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	View a List of Pharmaceutical Products Approved By the Health Plan - Glossary of Medical Terms - Health - RedOrbit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This report is a great resource for spelling, use of correct abbreviations, and definition of healthcare-related acronyms for any medical office staff or facility.
		Accrual: A method for anticipating medical expenses for enrolees over a given time period so funds can be reserved for payment when the bills are due.
		Additional drug benefit list: A list of pharmaceutical products approved by the health plan and employer for dispensing in quantities or day supplies other than the standards covered under a benefit package.
	www.redorbit.com /news/health/582707/view_a_list_of_pharmaceutical_products_approved_by_the_health/index.html?source=r_health (559 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on medical spa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Medical nutrition therapy is done by dietitians and is prescribed for diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, weight and eating disorders, allergies, malnutrition and neoplastic diseases.
		Medical education is education related to the practice of being a medical practitioner, either the initial training to become a doctor or further training thereafter.
		Medical education and training varies considerably across the world, however typically involves entry level education at a university medical school, followed by a period of supervised practise and possibly postgraduate vocational training.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/medical_spa (5409 words)

	Medical Facts
		Medicine is a branch of health science concerned with maintaining human health and restoring it by treating disease and injury; it is both an area of knowledge, a science of body systems and diseases and their treatment, and the applied practice of that knowledge.
		The art of medicine is the application of this medical knowledge in combination with intuition and clinical judgment to determine the proper diagnoses and treatment plan for this unique patient and to treat the patient accordingly.
		In general, this entails a medical degree from a university and accreditation by a medical board or an equivalent national organization, which may ask the applicant to pass exams.
	www.medicalfacts.co.uk (4714 words)

	Abbreviations Medical -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		IMO this list should stick to medical terminology, with a seperate one for medical organisations of various countries.
		Abbreviation (from Latin ''brevis'' "short") is strictly a shortening, but more particularly, an ''abbreviation'' is a letter or group of letters, taken from a word or words, and employed to represent them for the sake of brevity.
		Abbreviators, a body of writers in the papal chancery, whose business was to sketch out and prepare in due form the pope's bulls, briefs and consistorial decrees before these are written out ''in extenso'' by the ''scriptores''.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/0/abbreviations-medical.html (698 words)

	Abbreviations, prescription definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
		Abbreviations, prescription: A prescription, as is well known, is a physician's order for the preparation and administration of a drug or device for a patient.
		It means twice (two times) a day and is an abbreviation for "bis in die" which in Latin means, not too surprisingly, twice a day.
		It is one of a number of hallowed abbreviations of Latin terms that have been traditionally used in prescriptions to specify the frequency with which medicines should be taken.
	www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=13853 (411 words)

	Safely Prescribing Take-Home Medications for Ambulatory Care Patients: PTNews: Virtual Hospital
		Avoid the use of drug name abbreviations and minimize the use of medical abbreviations as these may be misread or misinterpreted (for example, "qod" may be misinterpreted as "qid," resulting in a significant drug overdose).
		Medications should be ordered by the generic name, not by the proprietary or trade names.
		The list of approved medical abbreviations which may be used at UIHC for inpatient and outpatient medication orders is provided: http://www.vh.org/formulary/Hand/11MedAbbr.html
	www.healthcare.uiowa.edu /pharmacy/PTNews/2004/august.html (2601 words)

	BMA - Abbreviations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The library holds a number of publications which list medical abbreviations but there are also useful web resources which are detailed here.
		Therefore, the coverage of medical abbreviations is not as comprehensive as the previous book.
		Medical qualifications are listed at the beginning of each volume of the Medical Directory.
	www.bma.org.uk /ap.nsf/Content/LIBAbbreviations (342 words)

	List of medical abbreviations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of medical acronyms and abbreviations.
		NAD No abnormality detected, the absence of abnormal – signs on ;– examination (generally a poor term to use as fails to specify what was specifically sought for and may later suggest that a detailed examination was Not actually done).
		List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_medical_abbreviations (940 words)

	Medical Transcription Course Outline
		Lists of commonly mistaken words are presented in this module, as well as a glossary of short forms often used by health-care staff.
		An extensive list of medical abbreviations is presented in module 22, along with definitions for each.
		In Module 23 students have access to an A to Z list of medical terms, and to a glossary of medical suffixes and prefixes.
	transcription.thevlc.com /information/course_outline.html (1140 words)

	InteliHealth:
		While reading a medical report, you want a list of medical abbreviations you can consult so you can quickly check the expansion of several abbreviations used in the text.
		She wants to research this condition and is putting together a list of related terms for on-line searching in her research.
		The words in the Results List are generally in alphabetical order, with homographs for the word listed first, followed by compounds containing the word.
	www.intelihealth.com /IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/9276/9276/209481.html?d=dmtDictionary (3166 words)

	Amazon.com: Medical Abbreviations and Eponyms: Books: Sheila B. Sloane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Over 10,000 new abbreviations and over 1,000 new eponyms have been added to the updated edition, and definitions have been given for common diseases, syndromes, and operations.
		Medical Abbreviations and Eponyms by Sheila B. Sloane
		Such trivia may seem inconsequential, but for those for whom medical terminology is a livelihood, it is far from trivial.
	www.amazon.com /Medical-Abbreviations-Eponyms-Sheila-Sloane/dp/0721670881 (1088 words)

	Cyndi's List - Medical & Medicine
		An alphabetical list of nurses sent to military hospitals in the east.
		Faculty of the Medical Dept. of the University of Wooster, Cleveland, Ohio 1890
		List of deaths of CS soldiers in the hospitals around Cassville, Georgia, during the period between October, 1863, and March, 1864.
	www.cyndislist.com /medical.htm (2946 words)

	Medication Safety Tools and Resources
		The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have launched a national education campaign to help eliminate one of the most common but preventable sources of medication errors—the use of ambiguous medical abbreviations.
		The campaign focuses on eliminating the use of error-prone abbreviations by healthcare professionals and students, medical communications and publishing professionals, the pharmaceutical industry, and FDA staff.
		A comprehensive, printable two-page list of abbreviations, symbols, and dose designations that should NEVER be used in medical communications.
	www.ismp.org /tools/abbreviations (404 words)

	Medical abbreviations, jargon and terms used by doctors in medical charts and medical records by MedicineNet.com
		Medical abbreviations, jargon and terms used by doctors in medical charts and medical records by MedicineNet.com
		Doctors commonly use a variety of abbreviations in order to rapidly and succinctly record information about, and give instructions to, their patients.
		Widening the cervix and scrapping with a curette for the purpose of removing tissue lining the inner surface of the womb (uterus).
	www.medicinenet.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=54842 (383 words)

	Alibris: abbreviations
		For the medical language specialist working in any aspect of medical documentation, this new edition provides a complete guide to quick verification of spelling and meanings of abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols used in all specialties.
		Includes a broad spectrum of medical abbreviations and their meaning--all arranged alphabetically for easy reference.
		This comprehensive reference compiles all of the terms, definitions, and abbreviations associated with data and computer communications, a field noted for the fast pace of new developments and advances.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/abbreviations (710 words)

	Medical Links
		Enter a medical condition or surgery name to find a description, synonyms, diagnosis information, treatment, complications, predicted outcome, alternative potential diagnosis, and speciality field of study.
		Free content includes a medical encyclopedia, a guide to prescription drugs, health industry news, five health-related databases of the National Library of Medicine, clinical trial and related information, physician bios, and more.
		Medical information and health topics organized by medical condition, medical dictionary.
	www.louisvillelaw.com /medical/med_links.htm (1994 words)

	Free Dictionaries
		This dictionary is much larger than the American Abbreviations and is available with purchase of BDicty Commercial.
		This dictionary is a list of NASA acronyms collected from different NASA documents.
		This is a list of the Extensions in the file's names.
	www.beiks.com /palmzonebg/Free_dictionaries.htm (588 words)

	List of medical abbreviations Information
		The Latin origin of the abbreviations is given in italics.
		List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel
		View a list of authors or edit this article.
	www.bookrags.com /List_of_medical_abbreviations (273 words)

	Abbreviations used when discussing cancer
		This is the 03 February 2004 version of the list of medical abbreviations and definitions used in discussions on the Breast-Cancer discussion list, the Inflammatory Breast Cancer list, and other online resources.
		A very few computer abbreviations are listed separately from medical abbreviations and at the end.
		This is, after all, supposed to be just an abbreviation list and glossary, so it should be somewhat abbreviated as well.
	www.yana.org /abbrevs.htm (2420 words)

	Avoid Using These Dangerous Medical Abbreviations: Rx Update: Virtual Hospital (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Identifying ways to reduce medical errors continues to be a priority for healthcare organizations.
		One of the major causes of medication errors is the ongoing use of potentially dangerous abbreviations and dose designations.
		To enhance the safety of communications, the JCAHO has recommended that healthcare organizations standardize any abbreviations, acronyms and symbols used throughout the organization and develop a list of abbreviations, acronyms and symbols that should not be used.
	www.healthcare.uiowa.edu /pharmacy/RxUpdate/2003/01rxu.html (370 words)

	Amazon.ca: Medical Abbreviations: 15,000 Conveniences at the Expense of Communications and Safety: Books: Neil M. Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is a pretty good abbreviations dictionary, but after one month of use, the spine separated from the book and the whole thing fell apart.
		If you're in the medical field, you use and see a lot of abbreviations that may be confusing to you.
		This is a great resource for anyone in the medical field i.e clinical research, nursing, pharmacy, administration, anywhere.
	www.amazon.ca /Medical-Abbreviations-Conveniences-Expense-Communications/dp/0931431107 (709 words)

	eBay View About Me for sierratranscription
		The AAMT (American Association of Medical Transcriptionists) has been reporting an ever-increasing shortage of qualified transcriptionists due to attrition and lack of new entries into the profession.
		In addition, we are a medical transcription service and we and any others can tell you that if you provide a potential employer with one of these fake certificates, your application will never be considered.
		We have a long list of complaints from the purchasers of this "product" and e-mails from this individual admitting to their need to just make quick cash, sent full of misspellings and grammatical errors.
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	Amazon.com: Medical Abbreviations and Eponyms: Books: Sheila B. Sloane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Medical Abbreviations and Eponyms by Sheila B. Sloane
		Medical Abbreviations: 26,000 Conveniences At The Expense Of Communications And Safety (Davis Medical Abbreviations) by Neil M. Davis
		Lists for Medical Editors: A list by Jennifer Wood "Stay home mom and copyeditor"
	amazon.com /Medical-Abbreviations-Eponyms-Sheila-Sloane/dp/0721670881 (976 words)

	List of medical abbreviations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dictionary of Abbreviations in Medical Sciences: With a List of the Most Important Medical and Scientific Journals and Their Traditional Abbreviatio
		I have been listening to Bayless music for years, from Bach Meets the Beatles to his crazy happy birthday album in a dozen styles (Stravinsky's Rite of Birthday, a favorite), but this one has something special going on.
		This CD contains many familiar music from films and the performance of the musicians is very good particularly track 16.
	www.freeglossary.com /Acronym/Medical_List (385 words)

	WU Libraries Biology Dictionaries
		Lists from Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network plus many links to other biology glossaries and dictionaries.
		MeSH is a vocabulary of medical and scientific terms assigned to documents in PubMed by a team of experts.
		Biographical dictionary of medical eponyms; includes information about diseases and about the people they are named after.
	library.wustl.edu /subjects/life/dictionaries.html (589 words)

	Re: medical abbreviation list and medical drug list - GA Medical :: Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		GA Medical :: Forums » Medical Transcription » Abbreviations » Re: medical abbreviation list and medical drug list
		I even want the latest drug list because my current program does not have many drugs.
		any help for medical abbreviation list and medical drug list would be very helpful.
	www.ga-med.com /forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=23 (168 words)

	ABBREVIATIONS, version 0.81
		A very few omputer abbreviations are listed separately from medical abbreviations, and at the end.
		Actually, the more times I do this list, the weirder my mind gets, and some of the definitions are getting weird with it.
		This is, after all, supposed to be just an abbreviation list, so it should be somewhat abbreviated as well.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~jbonine/abbrevs.html (732 words)

	Medical Acronyms and Abbreviations
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		For precise diagnosis and prescription, Please consult a physician or a registered medical practitioner.
		Medindia provides medical and health info related to diseases, surgical procedures, diet, nutrition,lifestyle, alternative medicine, dental conditions with health news, health calculators, animations, blood tests, slides, body facts for public, doctors, nurses, medical students and dentists.
	www.medindia.net /acronym/index.asp (137 words)

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