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In 2002 the definition was changed to: Essential medicines are those that satisfy the priority health care needs of the population. [10] This remains the definition as of 2019. [1] The use of essential medicines lists has resulted in better quality of care and improved management of health resources in the most cost-effective manner.
The American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) is a professional association for medical communicators, with more than 4,000 members in the United States, Canada, and 30 other countries. [1] AMWA is governed by a board of directors composed of the elected officers, 6–8 at-large directors, and the chapter advisory council chair.
The aim of the society is to support the professional practice of pharmacists in hospitals and health systems. In addition, the society advocates to government agencies, such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on public policy issues related to medication use and public health.
The American Medical Association (AMA) is an American professional association and lobbying group of physicians and medical students. This medical association was founded in 1847 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. [4] [5] Membership was 271,660 in 2022. [6]
ASCLS began in 1933 as the American Society of Clinical Laboratory Technicians(ASCLT), in 1936 was renamed to the American Society of Medical Technologists and in 1973 to the American Society for Medical Technology (ASMT), before settling on the current name American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science in 1993. [1]
Health information management's standards history is dated back to the introduction of the American Health Information Management Association, founded in 1928 "when the American College of Surgeons established the Association of Record Librarians of North America (ARLNA) to 'elevate the standards of clinical records in hospitals and other medical institutions.'" [3]
Definition page from Amy Pope's 'A medical dictionary for nurses' (1914) A medical dictionary is a lexicon for words used in medicine. The four major medical dictionaries in the United States are Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions, Stedman's, Taber's, and Dorland's. Other significant medical dictionaries are ...
Profession of Medicine: A Study of the Sociology of Applied knowledge is a book by medical sociologist Eliot Freidson published in 1970. It received the Sorokin Award from the American Sociological Association for most outstanding contribution to scholarship and has been translated into four languages. [1]