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DEFINITION
Term | Definition |
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NPO | Nothing by Mouth |
ICU | INTENSIVE CARE UNIT |
CCU | CRITICAL CARE UNIT |
Hematology | |
Histology | |
Cytology | |
Coagulation | |
Pathologist | |
Proxemics | |
HIPPA | |
MEDICAID | |
TAT | |
Reference laboratories | |
CLIA 1988 | |
Hematology, also spelled haematology, is the branch of medicine concerned with the study of the cause, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases related to blood | |
the study of the microscopic structure of tissues | |
the branch of biology concerned with the structure and function of plant and animal cells. | |
the action or process of a liquid, especially blood, changing to a solid or semi-solid state | |
Pathology is the study of the causes and effects of disease or injury. | |
the branch of knowledge that deals with the amount of space that people feel it necessary to set between themselves and others | |
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act | |
Medicaid in the United States is a federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with limited income and resources | |
Turn around time | |
Reference laboratoryā€¯ is defined as the laboratory that receives a specimen from another laboratory and that performs one or more tests on such specimen. | |
The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 | |
Minor | lesser in importance, seriousness, or significance. |
Respondeat superior | Respondeat superior is a doctrine that a party is responsible for acts of their agents |
Tort | a wrongful act or an infringement of a right (other than under contract) leading to civil legal liability. |
Invasion of privacy | is the intrusion into the personal life of another, without just cause, which can give the person whose privacy has been invaded a right to bring a lawsuit for damages against the person or entity that intruded. |
Vicarious liability | is a form of a strict, secondary liability that arises under the common law doctrine of agency, respondeat superior, the responsibility of the superior for the acts of their subordinate or, in a broader sense, the responsibility of any third party that ha |
Negligence | failure to take proper care in doing something. "some of these accidents are due to negligence" |
Malpractice |