| ASHPA | American Society for Hospital Personnel Administration |
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| CLT(NCA) | Laboratory Technician Certified by the National Certification Agency for Medical Laboratory Personne... |
| CS(NCA) | Clinical Laboratory Scientist Certified by the National Certification Agency for Medical Laboratory ... |
| MPP | massive peritoneal proliferation; methyl phenylpyridinium; medical personnel pool; mercaptopyrazide ... |
| NCAMLP | National Certification Agency for Medical Laboratory Personnel |
| personnel management | Planning, organizing, and administering all activities related to personnel. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| personnel selection | The process of choosing employees for specific types of employment. The concept includes recruitment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| personnel staffing and scheduling | The selection, appointing, and scheduling of personnel. (12 Dec 1998) |
| personnel staffing and scheduling information systems | Computer-based systems for use in personnel management in a facility, e.g., distribution of caregivers with relation to patient needs. (12 Dec 1998) |
| personnel turnover | A change or shift in personnel due to reorganization, resignation, or discharge. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health personnel | Men and women working in the provision of health services, whether as individual practitioners or employees of health institutions and programs, whether or not professionally trained, and whether or not subject to public regulation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| laboratory personnel | Those health care professionals, technicians, and assistants staffing a research or health care facility where specimens are grown, tested, or evaluated and the results of such measures are recorded. (12 Dec 1998) |
| foreign professional personnel | Persons who have acquired academic or specialised training in countries other than that in which they are working. The concept excludes physicians for which foreign medical graduates is the likely heading. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Venereal Disease Research Laboratory | <microbiology> A blood test used to diagnose syphilis. Read as nonreactive or negative if you do not have syphilis. The Venereal Disease Research Laboratory can also be positive is cases of leprosy, malaria, mononucleosis, lupus, hepatitis A and pregnancy. Positive Venereal Disease Research Laboratory tests are usually followed up by a more specific test (FTA antibodies). (12 Jan 1998) |
| Medical Research Council | <organisation> A UK Government funded body to promote the balanced development of medical and related biological research in the United Kingdom. It organises national clinical trials for the assessment of new treatment protocols for leukaemia and some of the related diseases. (05 Jan 1998) |
| research | Careful, a diligent search, a close searching, studious inquiry or examination. (18 Nov 1997) |
| research, controlled | The first controlled clinical research was probably done in 1875 by the british naval surgeon james lind who, on board the hms salisbury, gave sailors with scurvy either oranges or lemons or cider or vinegar or nutmeg (or another treatment) and after just six days discovered that the citrus-consuming sailors had recovered from scury, until then the scourge of extended sea voyages, while the sailors who had been given the other treatments remained uncured. (12 Dec 1998) |
| research design | A plan for collecting and utilizing data so that desired information can be obtained with sufficient precision or so that an hypothesis can be tested properly. (12 Dec 1998) |
| research support | Financial support of research activities. (12 Dec 1998) |
| peer review, research | The evaluation by experts of the quality and pertinence of research or research proposals of other experts in the same field. Peer review is used by editors in deciding which submissions warrant publication, by granting agencies to determine which proposals should be funded, and by academic institutions in tenure decisions. (12 Dec 1998) |