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An integrated delivery system (IDS), also known as integrated delivery network (IDN), is a health system with a goal of logical integration of the delivery (provision) of health care as opposed to a fragmented system or a disorganized lack of system.
The main discussion of these abbreviations in the context of drug prescriptions and other medical prescriptions is at List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions. Some of these abbreviations are best not used, as marked and explained here.
ID: infectious dose infectious disease identifying data intellectual disability: I&D: incision and drainage (how to treat an abscess) IDA: iron deficiency anemia: IDC: idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy indwelling catheter infiltrating ductal carcinoma: IDDM: insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (now called diabetes mellitus type 1) IDL ...
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").
Childhood ataxia with central nervous system hypomyelination (see vanishing white matter disease) CAD Coronary artery disease: CADASIL: Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy CAP Community acquired pneumonia: CAPA COVID-19–associated pulmonary aspergillosis CAPD Central auditory processing ...
by health care clearinghouses in their internal files to create and process standard transactions and to communicate with health care providers and health plans; by electronic patient record systems to identify treating health care providers in patient medical records; by the Department of Health and Human Services to cross reference health ...
Medical Examiner releases IDs, cause of death for 4 killed in Waianae. Tribune. Peter Boylan, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser. September 5, 2024 at 9:06 AM.
Infectious diseases (ID), also known as infectiology, is a medical specialty dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of infections. An infectious diseases specialist's practice consists of managing nosocomial ( healthcare-acquired ) infections or community-acquired infections. [ 1 ]