| ASHP | American Society of Hospital Pharmacists; American Society for Hospital Planning |
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| BTP | biliary tract pain; biological treatment planning |
| CAMP | Christie-Atkins-Munch-Petersen [test]; computer-assisted menu planning; concentration of adenosine m... |
| CPS | carbamoylphosphate synthetase; cardioplegic perfusion solution; centipoise; cervical pain syndrome; ... |
| DPC | delayed primary closure; desaturated phosphatidylcholine; diethylpyrocarbonate; direct patient care;... |
| health maintenance organization | A comprehensive prepaid system of health care with emphasis on the prevention and early detection of disease, and continuity of care.HMOs may be nonprofit or profit-making ventures, and along with PPOs and managed care plans have come to define the U.S. Health care scene. HMOs generally offer a package of services; however, the choice of physician is frequently limited to those working within the HMO. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| health maintenance organizations | Organised systems for providing comprehensive prepaid health care that have five basic attributes: 1) provide care in a defined geographic area; 2) provide or ensure delivery of an agreed-upon set of basic and supplemental health maintenance and treatment services; 3) provide care to a voluntarily enrolled group of persons; 4) require their enrollees to use the services of designated providers; and 5) receive reimbursement through a predetermined, fixed, periodic prepayment made by the enrollee without regard to the degree of services provided. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health manpower | The availability of health personnel. It includes the demand and recruitment of both professional and allied health personnel, their present and future supply and distribution, and their assignment and utilization. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health occupations | Professions or other business activities directed to the cure and prevention of disease. For occupations of medical personnel who are not physicians but who are working in the fields of medical technology, physical therapy, etc., allied health occupations is available. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health outcomes research | The measurement of the value of a particular course of therapy. Health outcomes research is based on the principle that every clinical intervention produces a change in the health status of a patient and that change can be measured. (12 Dec 1998) |
| primary health care | Care which provides integrated, accessible health care services by clinicians who are accountable for addressing a large majority of personal health care needs, developing a sustained partnership with patients, and practicing in the context of family and community. (jama 1995;273(3):192) (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) |
| health physics | The science concerned with problems of radiation protection relevant to reducing or preventing radiation exposure, and the effects of ionizing radiation on humans and their environment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health plan implementation | Those actions designed to carry out recommendations pertaining to health plans or programs. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health policy | Decisions, usually developed by government policymakers, for determining present and future objectives pertaining to the health care system. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health priorities | Preferentially rated health-related activities or functions to be used in establishing health planning goals. This may refer specifically to pl93-641. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health promotion | Encouraging consumer behaviours most likely to optimise health potentials (physical and psychosocial) through health information, preventive programs, and access to medical care. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health psychology | The aggregate of the specific educational, scientific, and professional contributions of the discipline of psychology to the promotion and maintenance of health, the prevention and treatment of illness, the identification of aetiologic and diagnostic correlates of health, illness, and related dysfunction, and the analysis and improvement of the health care system. (05 Mar 2000) |
| health resources | Available manpower, facilities, revenue, equipment, and supplies to produce requisite health care and services. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health risk assessment | Method of describing an individual's chance of falling ill or dying of a specified condition, based on actuarial calculations that allow for known exposure to risk; expressed as expected age at which death or disease will occur, and intended as a way of drawing an individual's attention to the probable consequences of risk behaviour. (05 Mar 2000) |