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Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").
In 1955, the list that came to be called List 99 was started by the Home Office Consultancy Service. [6] (In 2000, a similar but distinct list was created by the Protection of Children Act 1999. [3] [7] [8] [9]) The Bichard Enquiry (2003) [3] resulted in a report (2004) [10] that noted shortcomings in the use of List 99. [3] [10]
Meaning Δ: diagnosis; change: ΔΔ: differential diagnosis (the list of possible diagnoses, and the effort to narrow that list) +ve: positive (as in the result of a test) # fracture: #NOF: fracture to the neck of the femur ℞ (R with crossed tail) prescription: Ψ: psychiatry, psychosis: Σ: sigmoidoscopy: x/12: x number of months x/40: x ...
This is a shortened version of the sixteenth chapter of the ICD-9: Symptoms, Signs and Ill-defined Conditions.It covers ICD codes 780 to 799.The full chapter can be found on pages 455 to 471 of Volume 1, which contains all (sub)categories of the ICD-9.
This is a list of mnemonics used in medicine and medical science, categorized and alphabetized. A mnemonic is any technique that assists the human memory with information retention or retrieval by making abstract or impersonal information more accessible and meaningful, and therefore easier to remember; many of them are acronyms or initialisms which reduce a lengthy set of terms to a single ...
List of ICD-9 codes 320–389: diseases of the nervous system and sense organs; List of ICD-9 codes 390–459: diseases of the circulatory system; List of ICD-9 codes 460–519: diseases of the respiratory system; List of ICD-9 codes 520–579: diseases of the digestive system; List of ICD-9 codes 580–629: diseases of the genitourinary system
Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.
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