Stedmans Medical Abbreviations Acronyms Symbols

This electronic version of Stedman's Medical Abbreviations, Acronyms and Symbols, Fourth Edition offers quick, easy access to over 75,000 essential abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols for medical language specialists and medical, health, and nursing professionals. This thoroughly updated edition includes more than 10 percent new abbreviations, expansions, acronyms, and symbols and 14 appendices. "Do Not Use" abbreviations indicated by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices are highlighted, as are slang abbreviations. Available as a CD-ROM or a downloadable file, the electronic version provides functionality including Search on Index, Full Text Search, Wildcard Search, Filter by Media and Term type, (appendices, images, abbreviations, slang), Add-a-Note, and Add-a-Topic. Other Stedman's content is accessible via one engine.

Identify current Abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols quickly and easily. Gain immediate access to medical terms that help you comply with the new JCAHO mandate for standardized hospital Abbreviations. You'll have thousands of new Abbreviations for a wide range of specialties, including anatomy, physiology, internal medicine, pathology, laboratory medicine, organisms, infectious diseases, plastic surgery, ENT, dentistry, alternative medicine, endocrinology, and more, right at your fingertips The 5th Edition of Stedman's Medical Abbreviations, Acronyms, & Symbols also comes with 3 months of free acccess to Stedmans Online. Y ou'll also find a wide range of symbols, professional titles and degrees, professional associations and organizations, chemotherapy and other drug regimens, and clinical trials. Now includes highlighted dangerous and error-prone Abbreviations, slang terms in red font, and more.

This adjunct to Stedman's medical dictionary compiles some 20,000 clinically relevant abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols for the primary benefit of anyone involved in transcribing, recording copyediting, or reading records, reports, and other material generated by health care professionals. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Stedman's Abbreviations, Acronyms & Symbols, Third Edition, for PDA provides yet another format for healthcare students and professionals to quickly access medical abbreviations, acronyms & symbols and their expansions at the touch of their stylus. This title also features four fully searchable, newly developed appendix sections: Degrees, Associations/Bureaus, Chemotherapy and Other Drug Regimens as well as an introduction to slang terms for easier identification. This medical reference allows the healthcare community to communicate with one another with rapid linguistic efficiency. Users will have access to over 78,000 terms with their expansions, more than any other healthcare publisher. Platform: Palm OS, Windows CE, and Pocket PC handheld devices

Identify current abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols quickly and easily. Gain immediate access to medical terms that help you comply with the new JCAHO mandate for standardized hospital abbreviations. You'll have thousands of new abbreviations for a wide range of specialties, including anatomy, physiology, internal medicine, pathology, laboratory medicine, organisms, infectious diseases, plastic surgery, ENT, dentistry, alternative medicine, endocrinology, and more, right at your fingertips!

Stedman's Pocket Medical Abbreviations contains over 30,000 entries for medical language specialists who need a quick, reliable guide to the spelling and meanings of abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols. This pocket-sized and affordable version of Stedman's Abbreviations, Acronyms & Symbols, Third Edition focuses on the most commonly used abbreviations in all medical specialties. All entries have been thoroughly reviewed for accuracy and currency. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization's and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices's dangerous and "do not use" abbreviations are clearly identified in red.