| ETIBACK | Environmental Teratology Information Center Backfile |
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| ETICBACK | Environmental Toxicology Information Center Backfile |
| HEDIS | Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set; health employer data and information set |
| SIECUS | Sex Information and Education Council of the United States |
| CME | cervical mediastinal exploration; continuing medical education; Council on Medical Education; crude ... |
acute angle
| information centres | Facilities for collecting and organizing information. They may be specialised by subject field, type of source material, persons served, location, or type of services. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| information management | Management of the acquisition, organization, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information. (12 Dec 1998) |
| information science | The field of knowledge, theory, and technology dealing with the collection of facts and figures, and the processes and methods involved in their manipulation, storage, dissemination, publication, and retrieval. It includes the fields of communication, publishing, library science and informatics. (12 Dec 1998) |
| information services | Organised services to provide information on any questions an individual might have using databases and other sources. (12 Dec 1998) |
| information system | Combination of vital and health statistical data from multiple sources, used to derive information and make decisions about the health needs, health resources, costs, use, and outcome of health care. (05 Mar 2000) |
| information systems | Integrated set of files, procedures, and equipment for the storage, manipulation, and retrieval of information. (12 Dec 1998) |
| information theory | An interdisciplinary study dealing with the transmission of messages or signals, or the communication of information. Information theory does not directly deal with meaning or content, but with physical representations that have meaning or content. It overlaps considerably with communication theory and cybernetics. (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) |
| operating room information systems | Information systems, usually computer-assisted, designed to store, manipulate, and retrieve information for planning, organizing, directing, and controlling administrative activities associated with the provision and utilization of operating room services and facilities. (12 Dec 1998) |
| air pollutants, environmental | Air pollutants which affect environmental conditions. (12 Dec 1998) |
| carcinogens, environmental | Carcinogenic substances that are found in the environment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| national environmental policy act | A federal law enacted in 1969 that requires all federal agencies to consider and analyse the environmental impacts of any proposed action. NEPA requires an environmental impact statement for major federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the environment. NEPA requires federal agencies to inform and involve the public in the agency's decision making process and to consider the environmental impacts of the agency's decision. (05 Dec 1998) |
| draft environmental impact statement | (DEIS) A draft statement of environmental effects. Section 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act requires a DEIS for all major federal actions. The DEIS is released to the public and other agencies for comment and review. (05 Dec 1998) |
| environmental assessment | (EA) A public document that analyzes a proposed federal action for the possibility of significant environmental impacts. The analysis is required by NEPA. If the environmental impacts will be significant, the federal agency must then prepare an environmental impact statement. (05 Dec 1998) |
| environmental exposure | The exposure to potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological agents in the environment or to environmental factors that may include ionizing radiation, pathogenic organisms, or toxic chemicals. (12 Dec 1998) |