Healthcare Dictionary
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A
- Abdominal Compartment Syndrome (ACS)
- Ablation
- Acinetobacter baumannii
- Acne
- Acute coronary syndrome
- Acute myocardial infarction
- Adjuvant
- Age-Related Macular Degeneration
- Ambulatory Surgical Center
- Amoxicillin/clavulanate
- AMP: Average Manufacturer Pricing
- Anaerobes
- Aneurysm
- Angioplasty
- Arteriosclerosis
- Aspergillosis
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Atrial flutter
- AWP: Average Wholesale Prices
B
C
- Candida
- Cardioversion
- Chemotherapy
- Clostridium difficile
- Coagulase negative staphylococci
- Colistin
- Community-acquired pneumonia
- Complete Response
- Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP)
D
E
- Echocardiogram
- Eczema
- Electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG)
- Electrophysiology
- Electrophysiology Study (EPS)
- Empiric antibiotic therapy
- Enterobacteriaceae
- Escherichia coli
- Exercise stress testing
- Extended-spectrum beta-lactamases
F
G
H
- Heart Failure
- Herpes simplex virus
- High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
- Holter monitor
- Human immunodeficiency virus
- Hypercholesterolemia and dyslipidemia
- Hyperlipidemia
- Hypertension
- Hypertensive Emergency
- Hypertensive Urgency
I
- Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)
- Institutional Pharmacy
- Integrated Delivery Network (IDN)
- Intra-abdominal infection
- Intraocular Lens
K
L
M
- Macular Edema
- Medical Imaging
- Medical Oncology
- Meningitis
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Metastases
- Metronidazole
- Molecular Imaging
- Moulds
- MRSA
- Myocardial infarction (MI)
N
O
P
- Pacemaker
- Partial Response
- Peripheral vascular disease
- Piperacillin/tazobactam
- Polymyxin B
- Prehypertension
- Preventive Cardiology
- Progression-Free Survival
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Psoriasis
R
- Radiation Oncology
- Radioimmunotherapy
- Radiology
- Radiopharmaceutical
- Radiopharmacy
- Refractive Surgery
S
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)
- Skin and soft tissue infections
- Skin Cancer (Melanoma)
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Streptococcus pneumoniae
- Streptococcus pyogenes
- Supraventricular tachycardias (SVT)
- Surgical Oncology
- Syncope
- Syphilis
T
- Tachyarrhythmias
- Tigecycline
- Tilt table test
- Time to Progression
- Traveler’s diarrhea
- Trial Endpoint
- Tumor
- Tumor Markers
U
V
- Vancomycin
- Vancomycin resistant enterococci
- Ventilator-associated pneumonia
- Ventricular Fibrillation
- Ventricular Tachycardia