| NFLPN | National Federation of Licensed Practical Nurses |
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| PNS | paraneoplastic syndrome; parasympathetic nervous system; partial nonprogressive stroke; peripheral n... |
| HM | hand movements; health maintenance; heart murmur; hemifacial microsomia; Holter monitoring; home man... |
| MIMS | medical information management system; medical inventory management system |
| PMP | pain management program; patient management program; patient medication profile; peripheral myelin p... |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
| financial management, hospital | The obtaining and management of funds for hospital needs and responsibility for fiscal affairs. (12 Dec 1998) |
| load management | Any method or device that evens out electric power demand by eliminating uses during peak periods or shifting usage from peak time to off-peak time. (05 Dec 1998) |
| Addison's clinical planes | A series of plane's used as landmarks in thoracoabdominal topography; the trunk is divided vertically by a median plane from the upper border of the manubrium of the sternum to the pubic symphysis, by a lateral plane drawn vertically on either side through a point half way between the anterior superior iliac spine and the median plane at the interspinal plane, and by an interspinal plane passing vertically through the anterior superior iliac spine on either side; transversely the trunk is divided by a transthoracic plane passing across the thorax 3.2 cm above the lower border of the body of the sternum, by a transpyloric plane midway between the jugular notch of the sternum and the pubic symphysis, corresponding to the disc between the first and second lumbar vertebrae, and by an intertubercular plane passing through the iliac tubercles and cutting usually the fifth lumbar vertebra; the plane's formed on these lines, and also on transverse plane's cutting the upper edge of the manubrium and the upper edge of the pubic symphysis, constitute the clinical plane's of Addison. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pathology, clinical | A subspecialty of pathology which deals with the laboratory analysis of specimens of human blood and other fluids. (12 Dec 1998) |
| chemistry, clinical | The specialty of analytical chemistry applied to assays of physiologically important substances found in blood, urine, tissues, and other biological fluids for the purpose of aiding the physician in making a diagnosis or following therapy. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pharmacology, clinical | The branch of pharmacology that deals directly with the effectiveness and safety of drugs in humans. (12 Dec 1998) |