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Abbreviation Organization or personnel MASH: Mobile army surgical hospital (US) MedPAC: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission: MD: Doctor of Medicine: MLA: Medical laboratory assistant: MT: Medical technologist: MLT: Medical laboratory technician MOH: Ministry of Health (various countries) MRCP: Membership of the Royal College of Physicians: MRCS
Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").
(Health Care) Power of Attorney: POC: postoperative care products of conception Plan of Care POCT Point-Of-Care testing [5] POD: postoperative days POEMS: POEMS syndrome (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, myeloma protein and skin changes) POLST: Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment: poly: polymorphonuclear cells, that is ...
List of medical abbreviations: Overview; List of medical abbreviations: Latin abbreviations; List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel; List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions; List of optometric abbreviations
84% of primary care physicians are registered with them and close to 3.8 million Albertans are enrolled with a PCN. There is a Provincial PCN Committee which includes representatives from PCNs, Alberta Health Services, the Alberta Federation of Regulated Health Professionals and the Alberta Medical Association .
This is a list of abbreviations used in health informatics. ACA, Affordable Care Act; DICOM, a standard for handling, storing, printing, and transmitting information in medical imaging. It includes a file format definition and a network communications protocol.
Capillary blood glucose (British medical colloquialism originating from Boehringer Mannheim, a manufacturer of early glucose meters, today a part of Boehringer Ingelheim.) BMBx: Bone marrow biopsy: BMC: bone mineral content: BMD: bone mineral density (also termed bone mass measurement) BMI: body mass index: BMP: basic metabolic panel: BMR ...
advance care planning Advanced Clinical Practitioner ACPO: acute colonic pseudo-obstruction ACU: ambulatory care unit: ad. right ear (from Latin auris dexter) AD: Alzheimer's disease acute distress aortic dissection right ear (from Latin auris dexter) as directed ADA: adenosine deaminase American Dental Association American Diabetes Association ...