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The term employed in Florida for the organizations established by statute in 1993 to serve the same function as health alliances (HAs). The state is to be covered by 11 of these agencies.  

Projects of the Hospital Research and Educational Trust (HRET) of the American Hospital Association (AHA) under a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation designed to help hospitals and health systems work with community development corporations to assess local health needs, identify major com¬ munity health problems, and develop plans to address them (1995).  

A program of a subsidiary of the National League for Nursing (NLN) for evaluating and elevating the quality of home health care programs, their management, and their outcomes. Those programs meeting the standards of CHAP are given accreditation. The standards pertain to planning, finance, service delivery, operations, human resources, evaluation, and outcomes of care.  

A body formed by the American Dietetic Association (ADA) for the purpose of examining applicants for the credential registered dietitian (RD) and granting that credential to successful applicants.  

A general-purpose mixture often used in the treatment of emergency patients with altered consciousness.  

Coding in which each code (number) represents (the rubric of) a category rather than an individual term being coded. Category coding is designed to achieve grouping to established classification “pigeonholes” in a single step which combines coding and classifying.  

A person who does coding.  

Hospital jargon referring to a patient for whom a code blue signal has been sent, indicating the occurrence of a cardiac (heart) emergency. Similarly, when a do not resuscitate order (DNR) has been recorded for a patient, that patient, in hospital jargon, is “not to be coded” (resuscitated).  

Perhaps the most common code used in hospitals for signalling a cardiac (heart) emergency, meaning that someone is in need of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (other hospitals will have a similar code; for example, “Code 7” or “Code Yellow”). Those individuals who are expected to respond know who they are, what it means, and what their response…

A unique symbol (usually alphanumeric) having a one-to-one correspondence with a term or a rubric. Codes may be used on the patient’s bill, for example, to indicate the service for which the charge is shown. Diagnoses and procedures are commonly coded for ease of manipulation by computer. When data or information has been replaced by…