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This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions, including hospital orders (the patient-directed part of which is referred to as sig codes). This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as CD, CR, ER, XT (See Time release technology § List of abbreviations for those).
diagnosis; change: ΔΔ: differential diagnosis (the list of possible diagnoses, and the effort to narrow that list) +ve: positive (as in the result of a test) # fracture: #NOF: fracture to the neck of the femur ℞ (R with crossed tail) prescription: Ψ: psychiatry, psychosis: Σ: sigmoidoscopy: x/12: x number of months x/40: x number of weeks ...
In health care, diagnosis codes are used as a tool to group and identify diseases, disorders, symptoms, poisonings, adverse effects of drugs and chemicals, injuries and other reasons for patient encounters. Diagnostic coding is the translation of written descriptions of diseases, illnesses and injuries into codes from a particular classification.
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").
differential diagnosis: D&E: dilatation and evacuation: DEE: developmental and epileptic encephalopathy: DES: diethylstilbestrol Drug-eluting stent: DEXA: Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry: DH: developmental history Department of Health (United Kingdom), a branch of government DHE: dihydroergotamine: DHEA-S: dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate: DHF ...
term birth living child TBSA: Total body surface area TBW: Tension band wiring/wire TC: traffic crash: TCA TCA tricyclic antidepressants. trichloroacetic acid TCC: transitional cell carcinoma: TCM: traditional Chinese medicine: TCN: tetracycline: TCOM: Transcutaneous oxygen measurement: TCP: Thrombocytopenia: TCT: thrombin clotting time: T2DM ...
Medical billing, a payment process in the United States healthcare system, is the process of reviewing a patient's medical records and using information about their diagnoses and procedures to determine which services are billable and to whom they are billed.
The CPT code set describes medical, surgical, and diagnostic services and is designed to communicate uniform information about medical services and procedures among physicians, coders, patients, accreditation organizations, and payers for administrative, financial, and analytical purposes.