| OCD | obsessive compulsive disorder; Office of Child Development; Office of Civil Defense; osteochondritis... |
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| OHR | occupational health research; Office of Health Research |
| FUN | follow-up note |
| IPN | infantile polyarteritis nodosa; infectious pancreatic necrosis [of trout]; intern progress note; int... |
| MSAN | medical student's admission note |
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| health care finance administration | See: HCFA. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| 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) |
| 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) |
| united states health care financing administration | A component of the department of health and human services to oversee and direct the medicare and medicaid programs and related federal medical care quality control staffs. (12 Dec 1998) |
| library administration | Planning, organizing, staffing, direction, and control of libraries. (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) |