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Glossaries

Laura Larsson's Glossary of Health Care and Health Care Management Terms
Laura Larsson, Clinical Instructor, Department of Health Services, University of Washington, compiled this glossary. References are included to the article using the term.

Acronyms and Initialisms for Health Information Resources Compiled by Marie-Lise Shams.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Glossary

Nicholas Coppola, CHE, compiled a list of abbreviations and terms for his Masters of Health Administration (MHA) thesis at Baylor University in 1996. Almost without exception, these definitions were taken from the various books, journals and articles he used in the body of his thesis. The terms mainly relate to military disability and compensation. If you wish to obtain a copy of Captain Coppola’s thesis, which is aproximately 120 pages including title and reference pages, please contact him at coppola@msn.com.

Genomics Lexicon A database of terms and definitions used in the study of genetics.

Glossary of clinical research terms from Center Watch, Inc. Useful list of terms with easy to understand definitions for those considering participation in a clinical trial.

Glossary of Population Terms From the Population Reference Bureau, a very nice glossary of terms related to demographics and population.

Glossary of Social Science Computer and Social Science Data Terms Selected Terms Used in Social Science Data Archives. This glossary (compiled by Jim Jacobs, Data Services Librarian, University of California, San Diego) includes terms which you may find useful in managing data collections and providing basic data services.

Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in Eight European Languages This project was commissioned by The European Commission and executed by Heymans Institute of Pharmacology and Mercator School, Department of applied Linguistics.  This system contains the electronic form of eight glossaries, in which you can find 1830 technical and popular medical terms in eight of the nine official European languages : English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Danish.

Extensive glossary from the Handbook of Medical Informatics
Click the glossary link.

Hypertextual Finance Glossary
With more than 3600 terms related to finance, this site will be quite useful to those needing definitions of such terms as Risk, Shareholders, Expected Values and Benchmark.

National Center for Health Statistics Definitions

 

 
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