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Uniform hospital discharge data : minimum data set Publisher Hyattsville, Md. : Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Office of Health Research, Statistics, and Technology, National Center for Health Statistics
The Medical Priority Dispatch System ( MPDS ), sometimes referred to as the Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System ( AMPDS) is a unified system used to dispatch appropriate aid to medical emergencies including systematized caller interrogation and pre-arrival instructions. Priority Dispatch Corporation is licensed to design and publish MPDS ...
"Developed by the Hospital Research and Educational Trust, Chicago, Illinois, under Contracts (HSA 110-71-37) to the National Center for Health Services Research and Development and (HSA 240-75-0056) to the Bureau of Quality Assurance."
Major Diagnostic Category. The Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC) are formed by dividing all possible principal diagnoses (from ICD-9-CM) into 25 mutually exclusive diagnosis areas. MDC codes, like diagnosis-related group (DRG) codes, are primarily a claims and administrative data element unique to the United States medical care reimbursement ...
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).
Outlying islands. Lists of hospitals in outlying islands of the United States include: Baker Island, none currently, uninhabited. Howland Island, none currently, uninhabited. Jarvis Island, none currently, uninhabited. Johnston Atoll, none currently, underground hospital during World War II (1939–1941) Kingman Reef, none currently, uninhabited.
Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.
No acute care beds at this facility (61-bed inpatient psychiatric center, 20-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility, and an 11-bed emergency department.) Piedmont Fayette Hospital. Fayetteville. Fayette. 300. Piedmont. Piedmont Henry Hospital. Stockbridge.