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  2. Health care ratings - Wikipedia

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    Health care ratings are ratings or evaluations of health care. In the United States they have been an increasingly used tool to try to drive accountability among health care providers and in the context of classic supply/demand view of Health economics, to help health care consumers make better choices. [1]

  3. National Provider Identifier - Wikipedia

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    A National Provider Identifier (NPI) is a unique 10-digit identification number issued to health care providers in the United States by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The NPI has replaced the Unique Physician Identification Number (UPIN) as the required identifier for Medicare services, and is used by other payers ...

  4. List of optometric abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    General health G(M)P: General (medical) practitioner HA: Headaches HARC: Harmonious abnormal retinal correspondence HM: Hand motion vision – state distance Hx: History IOL: Intra-ocular lens IOP: Intra-ocular pressure ISNT: Inferior, Superior, Nasal, Temporal rule used to assess optic disc appearance K: Keratometry OS oculus sinister (left ...

  5. Indicators 2024: Health-related issues are often complex - AOL

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    Aug. 10—WILKES-BARRE — Jill Avery-Stoss, chief operating officer at The Institute, this week said health and health care indicators include metrics on physical and mental health, health ...

  6. National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers

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    National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers, abbreviated as NABH, is a constituent board of Quality Council of India (QCI), set up to establish and operate accreditation programme for healthcare organizations. Formed in 2005, it is the principal accreditation for hospitals in India.

  7. Multidimensional Poverty Index - Wikipedia

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    The Global MPI uses three standard dimensions: Health; Education; Standard of Living and ten indicators. [11] These mirror the Human Development Index (HDI).. Multidimensional Poverty Indices used for purposes other than global comparison have sometimes used different dimensions, including income and consumption.

  8. List of international healthcare accreditation organizations

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    Ministries of health in several sub-Saharan African countries, including Zambia, Uganda, and South African, were reported to have begun planning health system reform including hospital accreditation before 2002. However, most hospitals in Africa are administered by local health ministries or missionary organizations without accreditation programs.

  9. Health care - Wikipedia

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    Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals and allied health fields.