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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).
The Current Procedural Terminology ( CPT) code set is a procedural code set developed by the American Medical Association (AMA). It is maintained by the CPT Editorial Panel. [ 1] The CPT code set describes medical, surgical, and diagnostic services and is designed to communicate uniform information about medical services and procedures among ...
Specialty drugs or specialty pharmaceuticals are a recent designation of pharmaceuticals [ 1][ 2] classified as high-cost, [ 3][ 4][ 5] high complexity and/or high touch. [ 4] Specialty drugs are often biologics [ 3][ 6] —"drugs derived from living cells" [ 7] that are injectable or infused (although some are oral medications). [ 4]
Computerized physician order entry. Computerized physician order entry ( CPOE ), sometimes referred to as computerized provider order entry or computerized provider order management ( CPOM ), is a process of electronic entry of medical practitioner instructions for the treatment of patients (particularly hospitalized patients) under his or her ...
The RFC specifies this code should be returned by teapots requested to brew coffee. [18] This HTTP status is used as an Easter egg in some websites, such as Google.com's "I'm a teapot" easter egg. [19] [20] [21] Sometimes, this status code is also used as a response to a blocked request, instead of the more appropriate 403 Forbidden. [22] [23]
This list of pharmaceutical compound number prefixes provides codes used by individual pharmaceutical companies when naming their pharmaceutical drug candidates. . Pharmaceutical companies generally produce large numbers of compounds in the research phase for which it is impractical to use often long and cumbersome systematic chemical names, and for which the effort to generate nonproprietary ...
The Board of Pharmacy Specialties ( BPS) was established in 1976 and is an independent division of the American Pharmacists Association that grants recognition within the United States [ 1] to appropriate pharmacy practice specialities and establishes standards for certification of pharmacists in 14 specialities. [ 2]
The three largest free-standing pharmacy chains in the United States are Walgreens, CVS, and Rite Aid . Ahold Financial Services (Giant) BI-LO. Cerberus Capital (Albertsons) Costco Pharmacies. CVS Corporation. Giant Eagle Pharmacy. Giant Food. H E B Drug Stores.