| LIS | laboratory information system; lateral intercellular space; left intercostal space; library informat... |
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| LISA | Library and Information Science Abstracts |
| MIA | Medical Library Association; missing in action |
| MLA | left mentoanterior [fetal position] [Lat. mento-laeva anterior]; Medical Library Association; mesiol... |
| MLAA | Medical Library Assistance Act |
| Veterans Administration hospital | A hospital operated at federal government expense and administered by the Veterans Administration for care of veterans of U.S. Wars and retired military personnel. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| personnel administration, hospital | Management activities concerned with hospital employees. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pharmacy administration | The business and managerial aspects of pharmacy in its broadest sense. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health care finance administration | See: HCFA. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Health Care Financing Administration | The federal agency that determines reimbursement for federal programs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| health services administration | The organization and administration of health services dedicated to the delivery of health care. (12 Dec 1998) |
| public health administration | Management of public health organizations or agencies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| self administration | Administration of a drug or chemical by the individual under the direction of a physician. It includes administration clinically or experimentally, by human or animal. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hospital administration | Management of the internal organization of the hospital. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nursing administration research | research concerned with establishing costs of nursing care, examining the relationships between nursing services and quality patient care, and viewing problems of nursing service delivery within the broader context of policy analysis and delivery of health services (12 Dec 1998) |
| drug administration routes | The various ways of administering a drug or other chemical to a site in a patient or animal from where the chemical is absorbed into the blood and delivered to the target tissue. (12 Dec 1998) |
| drug administration schedule | Time schedule for administration of a drug in order to achieve optimum effectiveness and convenience. (12 Dec 1998) |
| occupational safety and health administration | One of the U.S. Agencies responsible for regulation of biotechnology. The major law under which the agency has regulatory powers is the Occupational Safety and Health act. (09 Oct 1997) |
| organization and administration | The planning and managing of programs, services, and resources. (12 Dec 1998) |
| united states food and drug administration | An agency of the public health service concerned with the overall planning, promoting, and administering of programs pertaining to maintaining standards of quality of foods, drugs, therapeutic devices, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |