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Abbreviation Organization or personnel PA: Physician assistant or pathologist assistant PAC: Certified Physician assistant or pathologist assistant CPT: Phlebotomist: PCT: Primary care trust (UK) PGNZ: Pharmaceutical Guild of New Zealand PHARM: Pharmaceutical Health and Rational Use of Medicines (Australia) Pharm.D: Doctor of Pharmacy PMS
The occupational title of physician assistant and physician associate originated in the United States in 1967 at Duke University.The role has been adopted in the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, India, Israel, Bulgaria, Myanmar, Switzerland, Liberia, Ghana, and by analogous names throughout Africa, each with their own nomenclature and ...
Abbreviations are used very frequently in medicine. They boost efficiency as long as they are used intelligently. They boost efficiency as long as they are used intelligently. The advantages of brevity should be weighed against the possibilities of obfuscation (making the communication harder for others to understand) and ambiguity (having more ...
This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions, including hospital orders (the patient-directed part of which is referred to as sig codes).This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as CD, CR, ER, XT (See Time release technology § List of abbreviations for those).
Leading medics have raised concerns about the use of PAs in the NHS.
The review, led by Professor Gillian Leng, will report in the spring.
List of medical abbreviations: Overview; List of medical abbreviations: Latin abbreviations; List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel; List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions; List of optometric abbreviations
Myanmar Medical Journal: Medicine: Myanmar Medical Association: English: 1953–present Nano Biomedicine and Engineering: Medicine: Open-Access House of Science and Technology: English: 2009–present National Medical Journal of India: Medicine: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi: English: 1988–present Nature Medicine ...