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The expansion of the AP profession aims to provide primary care in underserved areas. [2] [3] The position also provides a career pathway for the increasing number of unmatched physician graduates. [4] In the United Kingdom, before the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948, an AP was a junior physician attached to a hospital. [5] [6]
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.
Attacks and armed conflicts. 2025 Darul Uloom Haqqania bombing. Five people, including Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani, the head of a faction of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S) party and son of Sami-ul-Haq, are killed and twenty others are injured in a suicide bombing inside of a mosque in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Mid-level practitioners in the UK are known as Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP) or Advanced Practitioners (AP) and occurred as an evolution of many differing professions which use various titles such as 'Extended Scope Practitioner'. Historically there has been debate over the consistency of quality in these senior clinicians and therefore ...
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").
A number of sources provide lists of initialisms and acronyms commonly used in health care. The terms listed are used in the English language within the healthcare systems and by healthcare professionals of various countries. [3] Examples of terms include BP, COPD, [9] TIMI score, and SOAP. [10] There is no standardised list. [3]
Researchers have devised a predictive model that could help doctors predict stages of cognitive decline tied to Alzheimer's disease. They are now looking to develop an app for clinicians.
Bioinformatics – is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combines biology, computer science, information engineering, mathematics and statistics to analyze and interpret biological data.