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"To enable communication among those involved in health care," this new edition of a standard resource contains more than 6,700 nonmedical words, phrases, and acronyms related to the health-care industry. RBB
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This reference contains definitions of over 6,700 nonmedical terms relating to the health care industry in the United States. Listings include, for example, professional associations, new procedures and therapies, diagnostic terms, providers, legal terms, types of coverage, and government regulations. A time line and selected bibliography are included in the appendix.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Journal of the Florida Medical Association
A treasury of definitions ... destined to be a medical classic in the genre of Taber's Medical Dictionary ...

The Minnesota Hospital Trustee
One of the most complete glossaries of health care ... for professionals and laypeople available. A "must" for board members.

American Reference Books Annual
Far from being a dry glossary, this volume is a delight to browse ...

Doody's Review Service, April 2002
Should be put in the pocket of every healthcare trustee ... every healthcare management student and probably every medical student ...

Susan B. Hagloch, ARBA, 1998
... Arranged alphabetically, with cross-referenced acronyms, the book provides concise definitions of a broad range of terms, from TQM to xenograft. ... The book is small enough to carry in a briefcase and inexpensive enough for copies to be provided to all who want them. Most public and academic libraries probably have this information in other resources, but the work is highly recommended for special libraries serving medical, legal, insurance, and management agencies.

Book Description
Demystifies the jargon of healthcare! NOT a "medical" dictionary, Slee's Health Care Terms explains over 6,700 terms - many of which cannot be found in other dictionaries. For over 15 years, Slee's has been the standard reference on terminology used in healthcare delivery, administration, managed care, finance and reimbursement, long term care, health law and regulation, classification systems, statistics, medical staff organization, quality management, health science disciplines, and healthcare planning - everything an informed person needs to know to understand today's complex world of health care. Many hospitals and other healthcare organizations routinely provide a copy for each trustee, key physician, and top manager. Indispensable for journalists, students, policymakers - all "stakeholders" in U.S. healthcare today. Just a small sampling of terms defined: ABBI, adverse drug event, AMA master file, bandwidth, capitation, clinical privileges, COBRA, collaboratory, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), contractuals, corporate integrity agreement, credentialing, current ratio, cybermedicine, desmoteric, dumping, EMTALA, entity coding, fiduciary, fiscal intermediary, gatekeeper, health science disciplines, HIPAA, ISO 9000, Leapfrog Group, leukoreduction, living will, loan closet, managed care, medicalization, medical staff, Medigap, neurocomputer, nuclide, nursing diagnosis, OBRA, opiaphobia, phacoemulsufication, phage, preferred provider, proteomics, stem cells, telemedicine, UB-92, utilization review, WHO, withhold.

About the Author
Vergil Slee, MD, MPH, is a "renowned medical informatics pioneer." He has served over 30 years on the faculty of Estes Park Institute (which holds national conferences for hospital medical staff officers, hospital and other healthcare administrators and trustees, and community members). Dr. Slee is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American Public Health Association, and an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Debora Slee is an attorney and writer with experience in healthcare law, hospital quality management, and managed care organizations. She was contributing author to The Law of Hospital and Health Care Administration, Second Edition, by Arthur F. Southwick. HJ Schmidt is a retired farmer and recovering lawyer who just really likes information technology. He's been around, done a few things, and learned a bit about various stuff. He managed to write some of it down.

SYNOPSIS

This reference contains definitions of over 6,700 nonmedical terms relating to the health care industry in the United States. Listings include, for example, professional associations, new procedures and therapies, diagnostic terms, providers, legal terms, types of coverage, and government regulations. A time line and selected bibliography are included in the appendix. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

FROM THE CRITICS

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: LouAnn Schraffenberger, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P (Univ of Illinois at Chicago School of Biomed & Health Info Mgmt)Description: This is a glossary of healthcare terms. Each definition is intended to present a concept and show how the concept relates to the healthcare field. This is the fourth edition of a book first published in 1986. Purpose: According the authors, the purpose is to enable communication among those involved in healthcare so that understanding is enhanced and better decisions can be made. The book serves as a quick reference with the emphasis of the work on breadth, not depth. Audience: The book originally started from a dozen pages drafted to explain essential healthcare terms to the spouses of faculty members who complained during a conference that one of their greatest barriers to understanding of the healthcare industry was the language used. The dozen pages were quickly snatched up by the healthcare professionals who themselves were unfamiliar with the jargon used by their colleagues in different disciplines. From this point, the book took shape and grew to serve all persons interested in healthcare terminology. Features: This is an attractive paperback with 6,000 (according to the author) healthcare terms that appear to cover all aspects of the healthcare industry. This is NOT a medical terminology book. Abbreviations are included. It is hard to think of a word or phrase that is not in the book. Assessment: As someone who enjoys reading glossaries, I'm delighted to have the latest edition of Slee's book. It has been one of the most complete glossaries of healthcare terms produced. Every medical library must have one! It should be put in the pocket of every healthcare trustee or board member, every healthcare management student and probably every medical student on the first day in a meeting or class. It has grown immensely since its first edition.

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