| HM | hand movements; health maintenance; heart murmur; hemifacial microsomia; Holter monitoring; home man... |
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| MIMS | medical information management system; medical inventory management system |
| PMP | pain management program; patient management program; patient medication profile; peripheral myelin p... |
| RM | radical mastectomy; random migration; radon monitor; range of movement; red marrow; reference materi... |
| FDI | F?d?ration Dentaire Internationale = International Dental Association |
| risk management | The process of minimizing risk to an organization by developing systems to identify and analyze potential hazards to prevent accidents, injuries, and other adverse occurrences, and by attempting to handle events and incidents which do occur in such a manner that their effect and cost are minimised. Effective risk management has its greatest benefits in application to insurance in order to avert or minimise financial liability. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| waste management | Disposal, processing, controlling, recycling, and reusing the solid, liquid, and gaseous wastes of plants, animals, humans, and other organisms. It includes control within a closed ecological system to maintain a habitable environment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| safety management | The development of systems to prevent accidents, injuries, and other adverse occurrences in an institutional setting. The concept includes prevention or reduction of adverse events or incidents involving employees, patients, or facilities. Examples include plans to reduce injuries from falls or plans for fire safety to promote a safe institutional environment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| product line management | Management control systems for structuring health care delivery strategies around case types, as in drgs, or specific clinical services. (12 Dec 1998) |
| database management systems | Software designed to store, manipulate, manage, and control data for specific uses. (12 Dec 1998) |
| decision support systems, management | Computer-based systems that enable management to interrogate the computer on an ad hoc basis for various kinds of information in the organization, which predict the effect of potential decisions. (12 Dec 1998) |
| disease management | A broad approach to appropriate coordination of the entire disease treatment process that often involves shifting away from more expensive inpatient and acute care to areas such as preventive medicine, patient counseling and education, and outpatient care. This concept includes implications of appropriate versus inappropriate therapy on the overall cost and clinical outcome of a particular disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| information management | Management of the acquisition, organization, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information. (12 Dec 1998) |
| institutional management teams | Administrator-selected management groups who are responsible for making decisions pertaining to the provision of integrated direction for various institutional functions. (12 Dec 1998) |
| integrated advanced information management systems | A concept, developed in 1983 under the aegis of and supported by the national library of medicine under the name of integrated academic information management systems, to provide professionals in academic health sciences centres and health sciences institutions with convenient access to an integrated and comprehensive network of knowledge. It addresses a wide cross-section of users from administrators and faculty to students and clinicians and has applications to planning, clinical and managerial decision-making, teaching, and research. It provides access to various types of clinical, management, educational, etc., databases, as well as to research and bibliographic databases. In august 1992 the name was changed from integrated academic information management systems to integrated advanced information management systems to reflect use beyond the academic milieu. (12 Dec 1998) |
| intensive management | Planned, active treatment to improve the quality and quantity of timber within a stand. A general term that distinguishes active forest management from passive forest management. (05 Dec 1998) |
| office management | Planning, organizing, and administering activities in an office. (12 Dec 1998) |
| time management | Planning and control of time to improve efficiency and effectiveness. (12 Dec 1998) |
| total quality management | The application of industrial management practice to systematically maintain and improve organization-wide performance. Effectiveness and success are determined and assessed by quantitative quality measures. (12 Dec 1998) |
| financial management | The obtaining and management of funds for institutional needs and responsibility for fiscal affairs. (12 Dec 1998) |