| PCCM | pediatric critical care medicine; primary care case management; primary care case manager |
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| HELP | Hawaii early learning profile; Health Education Library Program; Health Emergency Loan Program; Heal... |
| C/F | Clinical Finding |
| DOUBTFUL | double quantum transition for finding unresolved lines |
| KCF | key clinical finding |
| CBR | Case Based Reasoning |
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| CMG | Case Mix Group |
| CFR | Case fatality rate |
| CM | Case management |
| CASE | Computer Automated Structure Evaluation |
| finding | 1. That which is found, come upon, or provided; especially. (pl), that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc. "When a man hath been laboring . . . In the deep mines of knowledge, hath furnished out his findings in all their equipage." (Milton) 2. Support; maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision. 3. The result of a judicial examination or inquiry, especially into some matter of fact; a verdict; as, the finding of a jury. "After his friends finding and his rent." (Chaucer) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services | See: CHAMPUS. (12 Dec 1998) |
| program | 1. A formal set of procedures for conducting an activity. 2. An ordered list of instructions directing a computer to carry out a desired sequence of operations required to solve a problem. (05 Mar 2000) |
| program development | The process of formulating, improving, and expanding educational, managerial, or service-oriented work plans (excluding computer program development). (12 Dec 1998) |
| program evaluation | Studies designed to assess the efficacy of programs. They may include the evaluation of cost-effectiveness, the extent to which objectives are met, or impact. (12 Dec 1998) |
| seer program | A cancer registry mandated under the national cancer act of 1971 to operate and maintain a population-based cancer reporting system, reporting periodically estimates of cancer incidence and mortality in the united states. The surveillance, epidemiology, and end results (seer) program is a continuing project of the national cancer institute of the national institutes of health. Among its goals, in addition to assembling and reporting cancer statistics, are the monitoring of annual cancer incident trends and the promoting of studies designed to identify factors amenable to cancer control interventions. (12 Dec 1998) |
| small scale energy loan program | (SELP) A low-cost loan and technical assistance program administered by the Oregon Department of Energy. (05 Dec 1998) |
| immunization program | Organised services to administer immunization procedures in the prevention of various diseases. The programs are made available over a wide range of sites: schools, hospitals, public health agencies, voluntary health agencies, etc. They are administered to an equally wide range of population groups or on various administrative levels: community, municipal, state, national, international. (12 Dec 1998) |
| treatment protocol program | An FDA initiative to allow terminally ill patients to be given experimental drugs. (14 Nov 1997) |
| case | 1. An instance of disease with its attendant circumstances. Compare: patient. 2. A box or container. Origin: L. Casus, an occurrence Borderline case, a patient, whose clinical findings are suggestive, but not fully convincing, of a specific diagnosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| case-control study | <epidemiology> A study in which the risk factors of people with a disease are compared with those without a disease. It is an epidemiological method that begins by identifying persons with the disease or condition of interest (the cases) and compares their past history of exposure to identified or suspected risk factors with the past history of similar exposures among persons who resemble the cases but do not have the disease or condition of interest (the controls). The relationship of an attribute to the disease can therefore be examined by comparing affected and non-affected individuals with regard to the frequency or levels of the attribute in each group. (05 May 2002) |
| case fatality rate | The proportion of individuals contracting a disease that die of that disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| case fatality ratio | The mortality rate of a disease, usually expressed per 100 cases. (05 Mar 2000) |
| case management | A traditional term for all the activities which a physician or other health care professional normally performs to insure the coordination of the medical services required by a patient. It also, when used in connection with managed care, covers all the activities of evaluating the patient, planning treatment, referral, and follow-up so that care is continuous and comprehensive and payment for the care is obtained. (12 Dec 1998) |
| index case | A person who first draws attention to their family. For example, if my eye doctor discovers i have glaucoma and subsequently other cases of glaucoma are found in my family, i am the index case. Also called the propositus (if male) or proposita (if female). (12 Dec 1998) |
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