| PRO | peer review organization; physician review organization; Professional Review Organization; pronation... |
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| DUR | drug use review; drug utilization review |
| MEDPAR | Medical Provider Analysis and Review; Medicare Provider Analysis and Review |
| PRC | packed red cells; peer review committee; phase response curve; plasma renin concentration; professio... |
| AACHP | American Association for Comprehensive Health Planning |
| JC | James-town Canyon |
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| FP | Family Planning |
| FPC | Family Planning Clinic |
| NFP | Natural Family Planning |
| PTV | Planning Target Volume |
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| town | 1. Formerly: An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. The whole of the land which constituted the domain. A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls. 2. Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop. 3. Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities. "God made the country, and man made the town." (Cowper) 4. The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways. 5. A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country. 6. The court end of London;-commonly with the. 7. The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country. "Always hankering after the diversions of the town." (Addison) "Stunned with his giddy larum half the town." (Pope) The same form of expressions is used in regard to other populous towns. 8. A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard. Town is often used adjectively or in combination with other words; as, town clerk, or town-clerk; town-crier, or town crier; townhall, town-hall, or town hall; townhouse, town house, or town-house. Synonym: Village, hamlet. See Village. Town clerk, an office who keeps the records of a town, and enters its official proceedings. See Clerk. <botany> Town cress, the garden cress, or peppergrass. Town house. A house in town, in distinction from a house in the country. See Townhouse. Town meeting, a legal meeting of the inhabitants of a town entitled to vote, for the transaction of public bisiness. Town talk, the common talk of a place; the subject or topic of common conversation. Origin: OE. Toun, tun, AS. Tun inclosure, fence, village, town; akin to D. Tuin a garden, G. Zaun a hadge, fence, OHG. Zun, Icel. Tun an inclosure, homestead, house, Ir. & Gael. Dun a fortress, W. Din. Cf. Down, Dune, tine to inclose. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| rate setting and review | A method of examining and setting levels of payments. (12 Dec 1998) |
| peer review | Scrutiny by one's peers (equals). Peer-reviewed articles appearing in medical journals have been scrutinised by members of the biomedical community before publication. (12 Dec 1998) |
| peer review, health care | The concurrent or retrospective review by practicing physicians or other health professionals of the quality and efficiency of patient care practices or services ordered or performed by other physicians or other health professionals . (12 Dec 1998) |
| peer review, research | The evaluation by experts of the quality and pertinence of research or research proposals of other experts in the same field. Peer review is used by editors in deciding which submissions warrant publication, by granting agencies to determine which proposals should be funded, and by academic institutions in tenure decisions. (12 Dec 1998) |
| review | 1. A second or repeated view; a reexamination; a retrospective survey; a looking over again; as, a review of one's studies; a review of life. 2. An examination with a view to amendment or improvement; revision; as, an author's review of his works. 3. A critical examination of a publication, with remarks; a criticism; a critique. 4. A periodical containing critical essays upon matters of interest, as new productions in literature, art, etc. 5. An inspection, as of troops under arms or of a naval force, by a high officer, for the purpose of ascertaining the state of discipline, equipments, etc. 6. The judicial examination of the proceedings of a lower court by a higher. 7. A lesson studied or recited for a second time. Bill of review, a commission formerly granted by the crown to revise the sentence of the court of delegates. Synonym: Reexamination, resurvey, retrospect, survey, reconsideration, revisal, revise, revision. Origin: F. Revue, fr. Revu, p. P. Of revoir to see again, L. Revidere; pref. Re- re- + videre to see. See View, and cf. Revise. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| review, academic | A more or less comprehensive review of the literature on a specific subject, with usually an extensive critical analysis and synthesis of the literature. (12 Dec 1998) |
| review literature | Published material which provides an examination of recent or current literature. Reviews can cover a wide range of subject matter of various levels of completeness or comprehensiveness based on analyses of publications on the subject. The review may reflect the state of the art. It also includes reviews as a literary form. The presence of research findings or case reports does not preclude designation as a review. (12 Dec 1998) |
| review, multicase | A type of review literature giving demographic, laboratory, and clinical data on a group of persons or animals ranging from most of the known cases of a rare condition in large populations on whom the results of research will lead to the establishing of epidemiological analyses or predictions of the occurrence and natural history of diseases. It is differentiated from review of reported cases in that the latter generally reports a single case as a supplement to a presentation, however brief and limited, of other cases known to have been reported. (12 Dec 1998) |
| review of reported cases | Literature reporting - to the best of the author's ability - all known cases of a disease. The study is usually generated by the investigator's encounter with patients with a given disease and includes the investigator's own cases. The range of time will encompass historical cases and recent cases. The review usually cites the literature in which the known cases were published and may or may not include clinical and laboratory data. (12 Dec 1998) |
| review, tutorial | A type of review citing literature that will give the user a general and reasonably thorough coverage of a subject with which he may or may not be familiar. It often substitutes as a refresher course for a physician to update his or her awareness or as a crash course for a student unfamiliar with the subject. (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) |
| concurrent review | Review of the medical necessity of hospital or other health facility admissions, upon or within a short time following an admission, and periodic review of services provided during the course of treatment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| professional review organizations | Organizations representing designated geographic areas which have contracts under the pro program to review the medical necessity, appropriateness, quality, and cost-effectiveness of care received by medicare beneficiaries. Peer review improvement act, pl 97-248, 1982. (12 Dec 1998) |
| scientific integrity review | Designation for reports by the united states office of research integrity, identifying questionable research published in articles or books. Notification of the questionable data is carried in the nih guide for grants and contracts. (12 Dec 1998) |
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