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	List of medical abbreviations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of medical acronyms and abbreviations.
		PMH [past medical history] or Perimesencephalic subarachnoid hemorrhage
		List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_medical_abbreviations (320 words)

	acronyms finder dictionary and abreviations finder dictionary - acronyms and abreviations list, definitions and funny ...
		Many acronyms and abbreviations are also motivational and inspirational for training, because they contain a special theme, and because the acronym or abbreviation itself is a mnemonic device (a memory aid).
		This form of the acronym is of course eminently transferable to all orgnisational situations where managers fail to notice their mistakes, and also fail to notice the generosity of their staff, who bail them out and never mention a thing....
		Acronym to warn others (or remind oneself) that the information or content being sent, recommended or revealed is on the wrong side of political correctness or decency, and is liable to adversely affect career progression or even job retention, especially dodgy emails, websites.
	www.businessballs.com /acronyms.htm (10189 words)

	AAPM&R - New Joint Commission “Do Not Use” List: Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols
		In Brief: The Joint Commission’s list of dangerous abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols not to be used became effective on January 1, 2004.
		To help reduce the numbers of medical errors related to incorrect use of terminology, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) recently issued a list of abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols that should no longer be used.
		Medication orders are subject to the initiative, but so is all clinical documentation, including orders, progress notes, consultation reports, and operative reports, as well as educational materials and protocols/pathways.
	www.aapmr.org /hpl/pracguide/jcahosymbols.htm (608 words)

	LINGUIST List 4.494: Acronyms
		of course, the source of the vowel in veep is different from the source of vowels in hebrew acronyms, since i assume the vowel of veep is from the vowel of the name of the letter v (vee), while the vowels of hebrew acronyms seem to follow general phonological principles.
		Although once the acronym is regularly pronounced, it is subject to syllabic acronymizing, as in the 'you-dub' pronunciation of the orthographic acronym (UW) for the University of Washington.
		Medical people (at least in the New York area) seem to usually pronounce OB-GYN letter-name by letter-name so that it has five stressed syllables, rather than saying either (1) "obstetrician-gynecologist" or "obstretrics and gynecology" (3 to 5 main or secondary stresses) or (2) /ab gayn/ (2 stresses).
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/4/4-494.html (1144 words)

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	Medical Acronyms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		...The Medical Profession is a prolific user of acronyms, the aim of this site is to provide a database of acronyms and their meanings.....I have divided the acronyms into the categories as...
		Medical & Science Acronyms: Diseases, Medical Terms, Body Parts, and More Please browse our alphabetized list of medical and science acronyms.
		Below is a list of medical abbreviations and acronyms.
	www.emdrportal.com /medical-acronyms.html (230 words)

	Acronyms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		An acronym is a term formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the major parts of a compound term.
		This list explains acronyms found on the cms.hhs.gov web site and other acronyms that are commonly used.
		Note: If any of the acronym information is inaccurate, please submit an acronym data change request to CMS.
	www.cms.hhs.gov /acronyms (73 words)

	Device Advice - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sponsors need not submit a PMA or Premarket Notification 510(k), register their establishment, or list the device while the device is under investigation.
		Subject is a human who participates in an investigation, either as an individual on whom or on whose specimen an investigational device is used or who participates as a control.
		A subject may be in normal health or may have a medical condition or disease.
	www.fda.gov /cdrh/devadvice/ide/index.shtml (1112 words)

	Amazon.com: Medical Abbreviations and Eponyms: Books: Sheila B. Sloane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Medical Acronyms, Eponyms & Abbreviations by Marilyn Fuller Delong
		Such trivia may seem inconsequential, but for those for whom medical terminology is a livelihood, it is far from trivial.
		As an instructor of medical transcription and a professional medical transcriptionist for 30 years, I wish to recommend this book.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0721670881?v=glance (854 words)

	Read A Blog - Blogborygmi - I can see clearly now.. The Secret of Acronyms.. Operation SMARM.. "Everybody falls, the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Such is the case with the use of acronyms in medical research.
		Inspired by an exhaustive list of medical trial acronyms, last year I wrote wrote a post that still makes me smile (the part where my mind's eye conjures Batman at a medical conference).
		As compared with studies without acronym names, acronym-named studies had higher Jadad methodologic quality scores, enrolled five times as many patients, had follow-up periods half as long, but were not more likely to report positive results.
	www.readablog.com /feed9032.aspx (3099 words)

	MEDICAL DICTIONARIES
		Lists "acronyms and abbreviations occurring with a reasonable frequency in the medical literature." Except as they take the form of Greek letters, pure geometric symbols are not included.
		This work is divided into two sections: first half lists medical abbreviations and their meanings; second half provides brief definitions of medical eponyms.
		Similar to the Inverted Medical Dictionary and the Medical Word Finder, the Reversicon is useful for finding the correct medical term when only the meaning or definition of the term is known.
	library.kumc.edu /omrs/Dictionary/dictmed.htm (1185 words)

	Medical Abbreviations -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		They're listed as American Medical Association etc but they could equally well be the Australian Medical Association.
		IMO this list should stick to medical terminology, with a seperate one for medical organisations of various countries.
		~ KJ This page should be moved to: List of medical acronyms and abbreviations, as some of thease are no acronyms but are abbreviations, as an acronym makes a word eg POSH (Port Out Starbard Home) while an abbrevation does not made a word eg AD (Anno Dommini)..
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/92/medical-abbreviations.html (698 words)

	no air to go - acronyms, abbreviations and lung disease glossary
		This section is a spin-off of the AandA list, not intended as a comprehensive medical resource.
		- medication that interferes with the growth of bacteria and may stop an infection.
		- a multicenter randomized trial comparing maximal medical therapy versus maximal medical therapy with LVRS in patients with moderate to severe emphysem to determine efficacy of this surgical procedure for the purpose of resuming Medicare reimbursement (which was halted in 1996).
	noairtogo.tripod.com /gloss.htm (4230 words)

	Open Directory - Reference: Dictionaries: Acronyms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Acronym Master List for LANL - Large list of acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, and short forms that are used by or useful to Los Alamos National Laboratory.
		Acronym Server Simplified - A list of acronyms hosted by University College Cork, gathered from many sources and submitted by users.
		List of US Government Acronyms - A glossary of terms found in US government databases and in print publications.
	dmoz.org /Reference/Dictionaries/Acronyms (660 words)

	Medical Acronyms and Abbreviations
		Disclaimer : The above utilities have been developed solely for the purpose of medical awareness and are not meant to be utilised as diagnostic tools.
		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)

	Online Japanese Dictionaries and Glossaries
		This comprehensive list from Nomura Securities has lists of English and Japanese (kanji and katakana) headwords, and links to a brief gloss and a full Japanese explanation.
		A longish list of English medical acronyms, with the English expansions and Japanese equivalents.
		Lists of terms dealing with surface treatment and rust prevention in metals.
	www.csse.monash.edu.au /~jwb/onlinejdic.html (1776 words)

	Online databases — The Royal College of Surgeons of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Acronyms - A list of medical education acronyms provided by Trent Postgraduate Deanery.
		Drug Resource Center - Information on numerous medications, their use and adverse effects (brand names can differ between the US and UK) compiled by Harvard Medical School.
		ICD 10 codes - Tabular List of inclusions and four-character subcategories of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision Version for 2003.
	www.rcseng.ac.uk /library/healthinformatics/databases.html (846 words)

	Medical links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I presented the seminar in the medical school computer cluster and the students logged on to the WWW page built for this purpose and visited the various links from there.
		He has recently sent a list of packages, self-instructional materials, slides on EBM to a mailing list - they will go on his "Netting the Evidence" site but until they do, they can be accessed here.
		For those on the h-s-r list who have not yet come across it, PACE was a series of 16 demonstration projects in England on implementing clinical effectiveness, funded by the Department of Health and managed by the King's Fund.
	www.fam-english.demon.co.uk /medlinks.htm (6002 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.
		Described by the American College of Physicians as "the best acronym book available" in an earlier edition, this new 4th edition features over 10,000 new entries to reflect new material related to burgeoning fields such as medical informatics, computers in biomedicine, molecular biology and medicine, cardiology, outcomes research, and evidence...
		Includes over 22,000 abbreviations and acronyms, 250 symbols, 1,100 prefixes and suffixes, 44,000 total entries and definitions, and an index of managed care abbreviations.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Abbreviations (709 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)

	Medical Device acronyms and associations
		Advanced Medical Technology Association (formerly Health Industry Manufacturers Association) is the largest medical technology trade association in the world.
		Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation Founded in 1967, AAMI represents nearly 7000 professionals focused on medical instrumentation.
		Articles from the Food and Drug Law Journal are listed in abstract form but not provided in their entirety.
	users.wpi.edu /~mleal/Acronyms.htm (735 words)

	Medical Dictionaries
		is a decision support system which uses a set of clinical findings (signs, symptoms, laboratory data) to produce a ranked list of diagnoses which might explain (or be associated with) the clinical manifestations.
		DXplain provides justification for why each of these diseases might be considered, suggests what further clinical information would be useful to collect for each disease, and lists what clinical manifestations, if any, would be unusual or atypical for each of the specific diseases.
		Free searchable medical dictionary with over 22,000 medical and health related terms.
	www.medtrng.com /meddict.htm (698 words)

	Abbreviations and Acronyms for Oncology: Medical Terminology for Cancer
		This section aims to provide a reference list of abbreviations and acronyms that are frequently used within oncology.
		No definitive list of standard abbreviations exists therefore it is important to understand the context in which they have been used in.
		This list of has been compiled over a number of years and abbreviations have been collected from a wide range of sources including journal articles and conference presentations.
	www.cancerindex.org /medterm/medtm15.htm (534 words)

	Links — The Royal College of Surgeons of England
		The content of this area is maintained by the Library and whilst we take no responsibility for the content of links, if you would like to report a broken link or suggest a new website please email library@rcseng.ac.uk.
		A list of medical education acronyms provided by Trent Postgraduate Deanery.
		A medical dictionary published by the Dept. of Medical Oncology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
	www.rcseng.ac.uk /links/index.html?CategoryID=66 (242 words)

	Allhealthnet.com - Medical Dictionaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A medical dictionary with emphasis on hemotology and oncology terms and medications.
		Contains 102,000+ medical words and now includes over 1000 images directly from the 27th Edition complete with definitions, audio pronunciations, etymologies, hyphenations, images, tables, and animations.
		Resource lists and good advice on all aspects of cancer and cancer care.
	www.allhealthnet.com /meddict.htm (693 words)

	Amazon.com: Medical Acronyms, Eponyms & Abbreviations: Books: Marilyn Fuller Delong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Medical professionals communicate using words and phrases unique to the medical profession.
		Medical Acronyms, Eponyms and Abbreviations provides a comprenhensive listing of the most common acronyms, eponyms and abbreviations used in the medical profession, along with clear and concise definitions.
		Hundreds of new medical acronyms, abbreviations and eponyms with the complete terms that they represent have been added to the completely revised fourth edition.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1570662819?v=glance (867 words)

	CSU-CNSA Semester 1 page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Medical information developed for the public by the American Academy of Family Physicians.
		Extensive site: health news, library, medical conditions and treatments, and guidelines for healthy living.
		National directory of medical resources, educational materials, and tutorials (can toggle between English and Spanish versions).
	www.csuchico.edu /cnsa/sem1pg1.html (528 words)

	Surgery: Mistakes Top List Of Medical Errors, April 9, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		2001 APR 9 - (NewsRx.com and NewsRx.net) -- Adverse events in surgery are the most frequent and costly type of medical error occurring in hospitals, according to statistics from the National Patient Safety Benchmarking Center, a repository of data on adverse events in the U.S. collected and analyzed by Safety-Centered Solutions, Inc. (SCS).
		Adverse events in surgery account for nearly 20% of events in the national database; medication errors make up 16%; medical (nonsurgical treatment) account for 14.8%; patient falls make up 8.8%; and nosocomial infections round out the top five most frequent adverse events with 7.5%.
		According to SCS' National Patient Safety Benchmarking Center, the five most costly adverse events are: surgical errors, comprising 31% of the costs; medical (nonsurgical treatment), 16.6%; nosocomial infections, 13.8%; medication errors, 11.7%; and pressure ulcers, 8.3%.
	www.obgyn.net /newsrx/general_health-Surgery-20010409-21.asp (333 words)

	Hotlinks
		The objects of the Association are to further medical research in the United Kingdom generally, and in particular the advancement of the effectiveness of those charities of which a principal activity is medical research.
		A list of the short, "popular" titles by which official health-related reports, white papers and acts of parliament are often known.
		The Medical Protection Society is a not-for-profit, international mutual association run exclusively for, and largely by, doctors, dentists and other healthcare professionals.
	www.services.ex.ac.uk /eml/hotlinks.html (9144 words)

	Acronyms for Health Information Resources
		Acronyms for global information and data resources in health, medical, and veterinary sciences.
		The acronyms and their expansions appear in the languages of origin.
		I am grateful to all those who have provided acronyms or sites to include here, and who have sent Internet address changes.
	www.geocities.com /~mlshams/acronym/acr.htm (155 words)

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