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Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS)
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A set of numbers used in a trauma registry to indicate the nature and severity of injuries by body system
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Abstracting
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1. The process of extracting information from a document to create a brief summary of the patient illness, treatment and outcome. 2. The process of extracting elements of data from a source document or database and entering them into an audomated system
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Accession number
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A number assigned to each case as it is entered in a cancer registry
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Accession registry
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A list of cases in a cancer registry in the order in which they were entered
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
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The branch of the US Public Health Service that supports general health research and distributes research findings and treatment guidelines with the goal of improving the quality, appropriateness, and effectiveness of healthcare data
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American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer
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Organization that approves cancer-related programs, including cancer registries and trauma centers
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audit trail
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chronological set of computerized records that provides evidence of information system activity that is used to determine security violations
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Case definition
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method of determining criteria for cases that should be included in a registry
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Case finding
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method of identifying patients who have been seen and/or treated in a healthcare facility for the particular disease of condition of interest to the registry
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clinical trial
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controlled research study involving human subjects that is designed to evaluate prospectively the safety and effectiveness of new drugs, tests, devices, or interventions
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collaborative stage data set
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standardized neoplasm staging system developed by the American Joint Commission on cancer
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credentialing
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process of reviewing and validating the qualifications of physicians for granting medical staff membership to provide patient care services
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data confidentiality
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extent to which personal health information is kept private
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data security
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process of keeping data safe from unauthorized alteration or destruction
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database
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organized collection of data, text, references, or pictures in a standardized format, typically stored in a computer system for multiple applicatons
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disease index
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list of diseases and conditions of patients sequenced according to the code numbers of the classification system in use
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disease registry
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centralized collection of data used to improve the quality of care and measure the effectiveness of a particular aspect of healthcare delivery
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edit
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condition that must be satisfied before a computer system can accept data
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encryption
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process of transforming text into an unintelligible string of characters that can be transmitted via communications media with a high degree of security and then decrypted when it reaches a secure destination
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facility-based registry
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registry that includes only cases from a particular type of healthcare facility, such as a hospital or clinic
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Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS)
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A set of numbers used in a trauma registry to indicate the nature and severity of injuries by body system
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Abstracting
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1. The process of extracting information from a document to create a brief summary of the patient illness, treatment and outcome. 2. The process of extracting elements of data from a source document or database and entering them into an audomated system
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Accession number
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A number assigned to each case as it is entered in a cancer registry
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Accession registry
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A list of cases in a cancer registry in the order in which they were entered
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
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The branch of the US Public Health Service that supports general health research and distributes research findings and treatment guidelines with the goal of improving the quality, appropriateness, and effectiveness of healthcare data
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American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer
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Organization that approves cancer-related programs, including cancer registries and trauma centers
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audit trail
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chronological set of computerized records that provides evidence of information system activity that is used to determine security violations
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Case definition
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method of determining criteria for cases that should be included in a registry
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Case finding
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method of identifying patients who have been seen and/or treated in a healthcare facility for the particular disease of condition of interest to the registry
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clinical trial
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controlled research study involving human subjects that is designed to evaluate prospectively the safety and effectiveness of new drugs, tests, devices, or interventions
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facility specific system
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computerized information system developed exclusively to meet the needs of one healthcare organzition
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Food and Drug Administration
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federal agency responsible for controlling the sale and use of pahrmaceuticals, biological products, medical devices, food, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation, including licensing of medications for human use
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Health services research
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Research conducted on the subject of healthcare delivery that examines organizational structures and systems as well as the effectivenes and efficiency of healthcare services
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Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank
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database maintained by the federal government to provide information on fraud-and-abuse findings against US healthcare providers
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Histocompatibility
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immunologic similarity between an organ donor and a transplant recipient
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Incidence
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number of new cases of a specific disease
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Index
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organized (alphabetical) list of specific data that serves to guide, indicate, or otherwise facilitate reference to the data
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Injury Severity Score (ISS)
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overall severity measurement maintained in the trauma registry and calculated from the abbreviated injury scores for the three most severe injuries for each patient
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Interrater reliability
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measure of a research instrument's consistency in data collection shen used by different abstractors
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Medical Literature, Analysis, adn Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE)
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computerized online database in the bibliographic Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS) of the National Library of Medicine
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National Practitioner Data Bank
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data bank established by the federal government through the 1986 Health Care Quality Improvement Act that contains info on professional review actions taken against physicians which healthcare organizations are required to check as part of credentialing
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National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC)
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national advisory group that suports the director of the National Vaccine Program
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North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR)
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national organization that certifies state, poulation-based cancer registries
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Operation index
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list of the operations and surgeries performed in a healthcare facility that is sequenced accordign to the code numbers of the classification system in use
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Patient-specific/identifiable data
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personal information that can be linked to a specific patient, such as age, gender, DOB, address
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Physician index
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list of patients and their physicians that is usually arranged according to the physician code numbers assigned by the facility
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Population-based reigistry
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type of registry that includes information from more than one facility in a specific goepolitical area, such as state or region
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Primary data source
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record developed by healthcare professionals in the process of providing patient care
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Protocol
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healthcare -- detailed plan of care for a specific medical condition based on investigative studies, medical research -- rule of procedure to be folowed in clinical trial, computer network -- protocol used to address and ensure delivery of data
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Public Health
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area of healthcare that deals with the health of population in states or countries
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secondary data source
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data derived from the primary patient record, such as an index or a database
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stage of the neoplasm
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classification the malignancies accordign to the anatomic extent of the tumor, ex. primary neoplasm, regional lymph nodes, metastes
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traumatic injury
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wound or injury included in the trauma registry
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Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)
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program initiated by the National Library of Medicine to build an intelligent, automated system that can understand biomedical concepts, words, and expressions and their interrelationships
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User groups
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groups composed of users of a particular computer system
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Vendor system
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computer system developed by a commercial company not affiliated with the healthcare organization
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vital statistics
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data related to births, deaths, marriages, fetal deaths
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National Practitioner Data Bank
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data bank established by the federal government through the 1986 Health Care Quality Improvement Act that contains info on profesional review actions taken against physicians which healthcare organizations are required to check as part of credentialing
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National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC)
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national advisory group that suports the director of the National Vaccine Program
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North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR)
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national organization that certifies state, poulation-based cancer registries
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Operation index
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list of the operations and surgeries performed in a healthcare facility that is sequenced according to the code numbers of the classification system in use
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Patient-specific/identifiable data
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personal information that can be linked to a specific patient, such as age, gender, DOB, address
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Physician index
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list of patients and their physicians that is usually arranged according to the physician code numbers assignsed by the facility
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Population-based registry
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type of registry that includes information from more than one facility in a specific geopolitical area, such as state or region
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Primary data source
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record developed by healthcare professionals in the process of providing patient care
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Protocol
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healthcare -- detailed plan of care for a specific medical condition based on investigative studies, medical research -- rule of procedure to be folowed in clinical trial, computer network -- protocol used to address and ensure delivery of data
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Public Health
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area of healthcare that deals with the health of population in states or countries
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