| AP | accessory pathway; accounts payable; acid phosphatase; acinar parenchyma; action potential; active p... |
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| A&P | anterior and posterior; assessment and plans; auscultation and percussion |
| CHIPS | catastrophic health insurance plans |
| DDPA | Delta Dental Plans Association |
| NAPDP | National Association of Prepaid Dental Plans |
| physician assistant | A healthcare professional that is licensed to provide patient education, evaluation, a healthcare services. A physician assistant works along with the doctor to provide medical care to a group of patients. Also referred to as a pa. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| physician assistants | Persons academically trained, licensed, or credentialed to provide medical care under the supervision of a physician. The concept does not include nurses, but does include orthopedic assistants, surgeon's assistants, and assistants to other specialists. (12 Dec 1998) |
| physician executives | Physicians who serve in a medical and administrative capacity as head of an organised medical staff and who also may serve as liaison for the medical staff with the administration and governing board. (12 Dec 1998) |
| physician impairment | The physician's inability to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to the patient due to the physician's disability. Common causes include alcohol and drug abuse, mental illness, physical disability, and senility. (12 Dec 1998) |
| physician-nurse relations | The reciprocal interaction of physicians and nurses. (12 Dec 1998) |
| physician-patient relations | The interactions between physician and patient. (12 Dec 1998) |
| physician payment review commission | A commission created by the consolidated omnibus reconciliation act of 1985, enacted in 1986, and given the mandate to advise congress on medicare-physician payment. The commission members are appointed by the u.s. Office of technology assessment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| physician's assistant | <specialist> A technician trained to administer certain procedures under the direct supervision of a physician. [american term] (05 Mar 2000) |
| physician self-referral | Referral by physicians to testing or treatment facilities in which they have financial interest. The practice is regulated by the ethics in patient referrals act of 1989. (12 Dec 1998) |
| physician's practice patterns | Patterns of practice related to diagnosis and treatment as especially influenced by cost of the service requested and provided. (12 Dec 1998) |
| physician's role | The expected and characteristic behaviour of a physician as a member of the medical profession. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hospital-physician joint ventures | A formal financial agreement made between one or more physicians and a hospital to provide ambulatory alternative services to those patients who do not require hospitalization. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hospital-physician relations | Includes relationships between hospitals, their governing boards, and administrators in regard to physicians, whether or not the physicians are members of the medical staff or have medical staff privileges. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nuclear medicine physician | <specialist> A specialist trained in the interpretation and administration of diagnostic tests that use radionuclide compounds. (27 Sep 1997) |
| nuclear physician | <specialist> A medically qualified specialist in internal medicine who has subspecialised in the use of radioactive materials for both the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and other conditions. The radioactive substances are normally injected intravenously but may be swallowed (for example radio-iodine). There are few such specialists and occasionally Radiation Oncologists also practise this!. (16 Dec 1997) |