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Acronyms unpacked
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ABBREVIATIONS LONG FORM
A
AARC Acute to Aged Residential Care worker
ABF Activity Based Funding
ABI Acquired Brain Injury
ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics
ACAT Aged Care Assessment Team
ACCC Australian Competition and Consumer
ACCHO Aboriginal Community Controlled Health
ACE Advanced Clinical Education
ACHS Australian Council on Healthcare Standards
ACHSE Australian College of Health Service Executives
ACI Agency for Clinical Innovation (one of the ‘pillars’)
ACON AIDS Council of NSW
ACSQHC or “The Commission" Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
AD Active Directory
ADA Adjusted Daily Average – measure of admitted and non- admitted activity
ADD Actual Date of Discharge
ADE Adverse Drug Event
ADO Accrued Day Off (same as RDO – Rostered Day Off)
ADR Adverse Drug Reaction
AHA Australian Healthcare Association
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AHAC Area Health Advisory Council
AHCA Australian Health Care Agreement
AHCP Area Healthcare Services Plan
AHEO Aboriginal Health Education Officer
AHPRA Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
AHS Area Health Service
AHS Allied Health Services
AHW Aboriginal Health Worker
AIHW Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
AIM Accelerated Implementation
AJCC Area Joint Consultative Committee (Industrial relations committee comprising Area and union representatives)
ALO Aboriginal Liaison Officer
ALOS Average Length Of Stay
ALS Advanced Life Support
AMA Australian Medical Association
AMC Australian Medical Council
AMO Attending Medical Officer (can be VMO or Staff Specialist)
AMP Advance Medical Plan
AMS Aboriginal Medical Service
AN-SNAP Australian National Sub and Non-Acute Patients
ANZSBT Australian and New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion
APDC Admitted Patient Data Collection (data collected on all inpatients)
APF Area Performance Framework
ARCBS Australian Red Cross Blood Service
ARCHI Australian Resource Centre for Healthcare Innovation
AR-DRG Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Group
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AS Asylum Seeker
ASC Active Supervision by Consultant
ASC Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee
ASET Aged Services in Emergency Teams
ASMOF Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Association
ASP Asset Strategic Plan
ASQA Australian Skills Quality Authority
ATO Australian Tax Office
ATSI Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander
AUID Area Unique Identifier
B
BBV Blood Borne Viruses
BCI Breast Cancer Institute
BD Brain Dead Organ Donor
BDE Bed Day Equivalents
BHC Broader Health Cover
BHI Bureau of Health Information (one of the ‘pillars’)
BLS Basic Life Support
BMDH Blacktown Mount Druitt Hospitals
BME Bio Medical Engineering
BMJ British Medical Journal
BO Business Objects (also called Webi) - report writing tool used to access patient data for service analysis and management purposes
BPT Basic Physician Trainees
BRDCH Border – Chargeable
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BRDNC Border – Non Chargeable
BTF Between The Flags (Detection of deteriorating patient program)
BUT Bed Unit Type
BYOD Bring Your Own Device
C
C&CC Chronic & Complex Care
CAC or LHAC Community Advisory Committee or Local Health Advisory Committee
CADE Confused And Disturbed Elderly unit (now called T-BASIS units)
CALD Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
CAM Centre for Addiction Medicine
CAP Capacity Assessment Project OR Conditional Adjustment Payment
CAPAC Community Acute/Post Acute Care
CARE Clinical Assessment & Referral (NSW Ambulance program,)
CARS Cardiac and Respiratory System
CASB Central Acute Services Building
CC Cost Centre
CCARE UNIT Critical Care Unit comprising ICU/HDU and CCU
CCLHD Central Coast Local Health District
CCU Coronary Care Unit
CDA Clinical Data Architecture
CDM Chronic Disease Management (Program)
CDU Counter Disaster Unit OR Clinical Decision Unit
CE Chief Executive
CEC Clinical Excellence Commission (one of the ‘pillars’)
CEO Chief Executive Officer
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CERS Clinical Emergency Response System
CETI Clinical Education and Training Institute
CETU Clinical Education Training Unit
CGU Clinical Governance Unit
CHC Community Health Centre
CHD Coronary Heart Disease
CHETRE Centre for Health Equity, Training, Research and Evaluation
CHF Consumers Health Forum of Australia OR Chronic or congestive heart failure
CHIK Communicating Health Informatics Knowledge
CHIME Community Health Information Management Enterprise – CH electronic medical record
CHIS Community Health Information Strategy
CHOC Community Health and Outpatient Care
CHS Community Health Service
CHW Children's Hospital Westmead
CI Clinical Indicators
CIAP Clinical Information Access Program
CIRC Clinical Incident Review Committee
CKD Chronic Kidney Disease
CLAB Central Line associated Blood Stream Infection
CLD Criteria led discharge
CMC Clinical Midwifery Consultant
CNC Clinical Nurse Consultant
CNE Clinical Nurse Educator
CNS Clinical Nurse Specialist
COA Chart of Accounts
COAD Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease
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COAG Council of Australian Governments
COHS Centre Oral Health Strategy
COMBO Cost modelling system for modelling cost of acute inpatient service provision
COMPACK Community care packages
COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
COPS Community Options – (Service provider for COMPACKS)
CORVU Reporting tool used for Human Resource management reports
COSIM Clinical Operations Strategic Information Meeting
COSOPS Critical Operations Standard Operating Procedures
CPD Continuing professional development
CPEIT Child Protection Information Exchange Team
CPSC Carers Program Steering Committee
CR Consumer Representative
CRU Clinical Redesign Unit
CSC Computer Sciences Corporation (iPM Vendor)
CSO Clerical Support Officer (Ward Clerk)
CSP Clinical Services Plan
CSS Clinical Surveillance System
CSSD Central Sterile Supply Department
CSSU Central Sterilising Service Unit
CSU Charles Sturt University
CSUG Costing Standards User Group
CTG Cardiotocography- monitoring fetal heartbeat and contractions via electronic fetal monitor
CVAD Central Venous Access Device
CWS Case Weighted Separation also called Cost Weighted Separation
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D
D&A Drug & Alcohol
DA Daily Average – measure of inpatient activity
DADHC Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care
DAS Dementia Advisory Service
DCG Director Clinical Governance
DCO Director Clinical Operations
DCO- MH Director Clinical Operations – Mental Health
DD Dangerous drug OR Detailed design
DEF Current Defence Force Personnel- accounts to Defence Force
DETECT Detecting deterioration, Evaluation, Treatment, Escalation and Communicating with Teams
DHS Department of Human Services (Victoria)
DM Decision Memorandum
DO Day Only
DOH Department of Health
DOHRS Department of Health Reporting System
DON Director of Nursing
DONM Director Of Nursing & Midwifery
DOSA Day Of Surgery Admission
DPE Demand and Performance Evaluation branch of NSW Health
DRG Diagnostic Related Group
DSSU Dental Sterilising Service Unit
DUPS Drugs in Pregnancy Service
DVA Department of Veteran Affairs Patient
DVA Department of Veterans Affairs (Patient who is a Veteran where DVA meets cost of health care)
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E
EAP Emergency Access Performance
EAP Employee Assistance Program
eASY Electronic Antibiotic Stewardship System
EBF Episode Based Funding (major acute sites who are funded on an episode basis)
ECLIPSE Electronic Claim Lodgement and Information Processing Service Environment
ECP Extended Care Paramedic
ED Emergency Department (also known as A&E – Accident and Emergency)
EDD Estimated Date of Discharge
EDIS Emergency Department Information System for Base Hospitals
EDISSON GSAHS Emergency Department Information System for small hospitals
eDRS Electronic Discharge Referral Summaries
EDW Electronic Data Warehouse – replacement data warehouse system being developed by Department of Health to replace HIE
EF Episode Funding
e-Health The electronic management of health information
E H R Electronic Health Record
EIP Efficiency Improvement Program
EIR Enterprise Imaging Repository
EIS Endoscopy Information System
EMR Electronic Medical Record
EMU Emergency Medical Unit
EN Enrolled nurse
EOC Essentials of Care OR Episode Of Care
EOI Expression Of Interest
EOL End of Life
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EPI Emergency Patient Private Insured (excess waived)
EQUIP Evaluation and Quality Improvement Program
ER Employee Related
ERMS Enterprise Risk Management System
ESRG Enhanced Service Related Group
ESU Executive Support Unit
ETC Estimate To Complete
ETP Emergency Treatment Performance (formerly known as NEAT)
ETVL Extract, Translate, Validate, Load
EziSuite Management system used for recruitment and appointment of staff
F
FC Forecast
FF Families First
FFE Fixture, Furniture and Equipment
FirstNET Electronic information system for emergency departments
FLECC First Line Emergency Care Course
FMIS Financial Management Improvement Strategy
FONT Foetal Obstetrics Neonatal Training
FRAMP Falls Risk Assessment and Management Plan
FSEP Foetal Surveillance Education Program
FTE Full Time Equivalent staff
G
GA Gap analysis
G&S Goods and Services
GEM Geriatric Evaluation & Management
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GF General Fund
GIPA Government Information Public Access (NSW Act 2009)
GL General Ledger
GM General Manager
GP General Practitioner
GPC General Practice Council
H
HACC Home And Community Care
HAI Hospital Acquired Infection
HAPPI Health Access Priority Planning and Implementation
HARP HIV and Related Programs
HA-SABSI Hospital Acquired Staphylococcus Aurous Blood Stream Infections
HASI Housing Accommodation Support Initiative
HSFAC Health Services Functional Area Coordinator
HCCC Health Care Complaints Commission
HCDC Hospital Cost Data Collection
HCNSW Health Consumers NSW
HCQC Health Care Quality Committee
HDU High Dependency Unit
HEMU Health Emergency Management Unit
HERO Health Establishment Registration Online – register of all health establishments and service units within NSW
HES Health Executive Service
HETI Health Education and Training Institute (one of the ‘pillars’)
HH Hand Hygiene
HI Health Infrastructure
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HIE Health Information Exchange – data warehouse holding all of the Area’s activity and payroll information
HIM Health Information Management/Manager
HIMS Health Information Management System
HIRC Health Infrastructure Reform Committee
HIRD Health Information Resources Directory
HITH Hospital In The Home
HITSS Health IT Shared Services
HMMS Home Modification Maintenance Scheme
HODs Head of departments
HPCC Health Peak Purchasing Council
HPI Hospital Obstetrics Private Insured
HPRM Hewlett Packard Record Management
HPU Hospital Obstetrics Private Uninsured
HPV Human Papilloma Virus
HR Human Resources
HREC Human Research Ethics Committee
HRIS Health Records Information System
HRMLC Health Risk Managers Liaison Committee
HRTO Health Reform Transition Office
HRTOW Health Reform Transition Office Western
HSA Health Services Association
HSM Health Service Manager
HSNet Human Services Network service link system register of all human service agencies in NSW and services, means of referral etc.
HSU Health Services Union
HTP Health Technology Program
HVSSS High Volume Short Stay Surgery
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I
IAG Industrial Advisory Group
IB Information Bulletin
IC Infection Control
ICD International Classification of Diseases
iCHESS Chest Clinic Information System
ICLN Infection Control Link Nurse
ICMS Infection Control Management System
ICPMR Pathology provider for Central and Eastern facilities
ICT Information and Communications Technology (Program)
ICU Intensive Care Unit
IDC Inter Departmental Committee
IGA Inter Government Agreement
IIE iSoft Integration Engine
IIMS Incident Information Management System
IM Information Management
IM&T Information Management & Technology
IM&TD Information Management & Technology Division
IMET Institute of Medical Education and Training
IPAC Infection Prevention and Control
IPART Independent Pricing And Regulatory Tribunal
iPM Information Patient Management- system used for recording patient information
IPS Implementation Planning Study OR Intrusion Prevention System
IPTAAS Isolated Patients Travel & Accommodation Assistance Scheme
IPU Individual Patient Use
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IRCST Institute for Rural Clinical Services and Teaching
ISBAR Information, Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation (standardised information transfer in clinical handover)
ISOH Information System for Oral Health
iSTAT Is a portable Clinical Analyzer
ITIM Institute of Trauma and Injury Management
ITS Information Technology Service
IVC Internal Vacancy Circular
J
JMO Junior Medical Officer
K
KPI Key Performance Indicator
L
LGA Local Government Area
LHAC Local Health Advisory Council
LHD Local Health District
LOS Length Of Stay
LoST Length of Stay Tool – NSW Health
LSL Long Service Leave
LTCS Lifetime Care & Support Scheme
M
M&M Mortality and Morbidity
MAA Patient covered by Motor Accident Act Legislation
MABU Mother and Baby Unit
MAHS More Allied Health Services
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MAU Medical Assessment Unit
MBS Medicare benefits Schedule
MDAAC Medical and Dental Appointments Advisory Committee
MDS Minimum Data Set
MDS Message Delivery System
MEM My Experience Matters survey
MET Medical Emergency Team
MHOAT Mental Health Outcomes & Assessment Tool – patient information system for mental health
MJA Medical Journal of Australia
MMR Morning Medical Report
MoH Ministry of Health
MoU Memorandum of Understanding
MPS Multi Purpose Service
MPTL Millennium patient tracking list
MRAB Multi-Resistant Acinetobacter baumanni bacteria
MRN Medical Record Number
MRO Multi-Resistant Organism
MRSA Methicillin Resistant staphylococcus aureus bacteria
MSC Medical Staff Council
MSOAP Medical Specialist Outreach Assistance Program
MTEC NSW Medical Training & Education Committee
MVA Motor Vehicle Accident
N
N&M Nursing & Midwifery
NAIDOC National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee
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NAPOOS Non Admitted Patient Occasion Of Service
NAPS Non Admitted Patient Services
NATA National Association of Testing Authorities
NBA National Blood Authority
NC Non-Charge Patient
NCLTP Non-Charge Liver Transplant Patient
NCOS Net Cost Of Service
NCRP National Respite for Carers Program
NCSR Non-Charge patient who wants a single room
NDIS National Disability Insurance Scheme
NEHTA National eHealth Transition Authority
NESB Non English Speaking Background
NEST National Emergency Surgery Target
NETS Neonatal Emergency Transfer Service
NGO Non-Government Organisation
NHCDC National Hospital Cost Data Collection
NHDVA Nursing Home Patient (previously DVA)
NHNC Nursing Home Patient (previously NC)
NHP Nursing Home Patient (previously PI or PU)
NHPA National Health Priority Areas
NHPPD Nursing Hours Per Patient Day
NHVR Nursing Home Patient (previously VR)
NICU Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
NIMC National Inpatient Medication Chart
NKDA Nil Known Drug Allergies
NMDS National Minimum Data Set
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NP Nurse Practitioner
NPA National Partnership Agreement
NS2 National Standard 2
NSQHS National Safety & Quality in Health
NSW New South Wales
NUM Nursing Unit Manager
O
O&G Obstetrics & Gynaecology
OASV Occupational Assessment Screening and Vaccination
OCR Optical character recognition
OD Organisational development
OH&S Occupational Health & Safety
OOS Occasion Of Service
OPD Outpatient Discharge Reports
OST Off Stretcher Time
OT Occupational Therapist OR Overtime OR Operating Theatre
P
P&P Policy and procedure
PAC Pre Admission Clinic OR Public Administration Committee
PACC Post Acute Community Care
PACE Pre-Arrest Criteria for Escalation
PACS Picture Archiving Communication System
PADP Program of Appliances for Disabled People
PANOC Prevention of Abuse and Neglect of Children
PAS Patient Administration System
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PAU Performance Analysis Unit
PBCC Patient based care challenge
P&C People and Culture
PCC Primary & Community Care OR Patient Care Committee
PCEHR Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record
PD Policy Directive OR Position Description
PDP Performance Development Plan OR Project Definition Plan
PEC Planning & Establishment Committee (AWH)
PERC Performance Evaluation and Review Committee
PET Patient Experience Trackers
PFI Patient First Initiative
PFP Project Feasibility Plan OR Patient Flow Portal
PGY1 Post Graduate Year 1
PHI Private Health Insurance
PHICC Peak Health Industrial Consultative Committee
PHN Primary Health Network
PHPRP Population Health, Planning, Research & Performance
PHS Power Health Solutions
PHU Public Health Unit
PI Private Patient- Insured
PICC Practice Investigation Coordination Committee
PILTP Private Liver Transplant Patient- Insured
PIPP Pressure Injury Point Prevalence
PLA Product Line Assignment
PLO Patient Liaison Officer
PMC Post Graduate Medical Council
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PMF Performance Management Framework
PMO Program Management Office
PN Prisoner
POHP Priority Oral Health Program
PORA Panel of Overseas Recruitment Agencies
PPDC Program and Product Data Collections
PPE Personal Protective Equipment
PPM Power Performance Manager – clinical costing system
PR Patient Covered by Public Liability Insurance
PRM Patient reported measure
PROACT Rostering system used for staff rostering/timesheets linked to Payroll
PSC Project Steering Committee
PSCQO Patient Safety and Clinical Quality Officer
PSHC Patient Safety Handover Checklist
PSQ Patient Safety and Quality
PTE Pre Tender Estimate
PTV Patient Transport Vehicle
PU Private Patient - Uninsured
PUG Patient User Group or Project User Group
PULTP Private Liver Transplant Patient - Uninsured
PWP Premiers Workforce Profile
Q
QBBCH Qualified Baby - Chargeable
QBBNC Qualified Baby – Non Chargeable
QIPPS Quality Improvement Program Planning System
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QLY Quality of Life Years
Q-MATIC System providing Automated query function on Interactive Terminals
QMS Quality Management System
QR QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response Code)
R
R&EC Rehabilitation & Extended Care
RAC or RACC Residential Aged Care
RACGP Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
RACS Royal Australian College of Surgeons OR Respiratory & Ambulatory Care Service
RANZCP Royal Australian and NSW College of Psychiatrists
RCA Root Cause Analysis
RCMG Regional Coordination Management Group
RCNA Royal College of Nursing Australia
RCT Randomised Controlled Trial
RDA Rural Doctors’ Association
RDF Resource Distribution Formula
RDO Rostered Day Off (same as ADO – Accrued Day Off)
REACH Recognise, Engage, Act, Call, Help is on its way
RFA Recommendation For Admission
RIB Reportable Incident Brief
RIS Radiology Information System
RMO Resident Medical Officer
RN Registered nurse
RRT Rapid Response Team
RSI Relative Stay Index – average length of stay compared to a State/peer group norm of 1.0
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RTO Registered Training Organisation
RTW Return to Work
RUP Rupertswood Building (Mt Druitt)
S
S&W Salaries & Wages
SABSI Staphylococcus Aurous Blood Stream Infections
SAC Severity Assessment Code (rating instrument for assessing severity of reported incidents)
SAFTE Sub Acute Fast Track Elderly Care Program
SAGO Standardised Adult General Observation Chart
SAHS Southern Area Health Service (former health service which
SAMS Stop Assess and Move Smarter
SAP Sustainable Access Plan
SAP-CARE Sustainable Access Plan – Chronic, Aged, Rehabilitation & Extended Care strategy
SAS Sexual Assault Service OR Symptom Assessment Scale OR Self Assessment Survey
SBB State Based Build
SCD Severe Chronic Disease
SCHN Sydney Children's Hospital Network
SCN Special Care Nursery
SCoA Standard Chart of Accounts
SDA Service Development Application
SEAB State Executive Advisory Board (Department of Health)
SEIFA Socio Economic Indication of Financial Assessment
Sep Separation /Episode of Care
SiAM Project Subacute Inpatient Activity Project
SIBR Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Round
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SkIPI Skin Integrity and Pressure Injury
SMADRU Specialist Medical and Dental Recruitment Unit
SMHTAL Statewide Mental Health Telephone Access Line
SMO Salaried Medical Officer
SMOC Standardised Maternity Observation Chart
SMP Salaried Medical Practitioner
SMRT Statewide Management Reporting Tool
SNACC Electronic Information System used for HACC services
SNAP Subacute/ Non Acute Patients
SNAP program Structured New Grad Ante-natal program
SNAPSHOT Electronic Information System used for sub-acute services
SNCS Clincial System
SNOC Standardised Neonatal Observation Chart
SNOMED-CT Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms – Australian standard for clinical terminology under national e-
SOORT Statutory and Other Offices Remuneration Tribunal
SOR Source of Referral
SP&T Special Purpose and Trust Account
SP&TF Special Purpose & Trust Fund
SPM Strategic Performance Management
SPOC Standardised Paediatric Observation Chart
SPP Service Procurement Plan
SQL Structured Query language - (Is a special-purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a relational database management systems
SRG Service Related Group
SSI Surgical Site Infection OR Specialist Service Indicator
STAFFVAX Information system for recording staff vaccination program
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STAR Strategic Tactics And Revenue – regular meeting of PLOs
STEP State-wide Testing of Eyesight for Preschoolers
SUM Safe Use of Medicines
SUPI State Unique Patient Identifier
Surginet Electronic information system for operating theatre management
SWIS Statewide Infrastructure Services
SWISH State-Wide Infant Screening for Hearing program
SWPS South West Pathology Service
SYNAPTIX Electronic Information system used for sub-acute services. Replaced SnapShot as the collection tool for inpatient sub-acute services
T
TACP Transitional Aged Care Program
TAFE Technical and Further Education
T-BASIS Transitional Units for people with Dementia (previously called CADE)
TESL Training, Education and Study Leave
TIL Time In lieu
TMF Treasury Managed Fund
TOC Transfer of Care
TOR Terms of Reference
TP Patient covered by Third Party Insurance
TPN Total parental nutrition
TPP Transition to professional practice
TRACS Transitional Aged Care places
TRIM-EDM TRIM = Electronic Document AND Records Management System - EDM = Electronic Document Management
TSU Training and support unit
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Tx Treatment
U
UAR Unaudited Annual Return
UAT User Acceptance Testing
UBBCH Unqualified baby – private mother
UBBNC Unqualified baby – non-charge mother
UDAG Urgency Disposition and Age Related Group (weight applied to ED)
UDG Urgency Disposition Group (weight applied for ED)
UNCEL Unelected patient
UOA Urgency of Admission
UPI Unique Patient Identifier (Area-wide number assigned to and unique to each individual patient)
USCC Union Specific Consultation Committee
V
VAP Ventilated Acquired Pneumonia
VET Vocational Education and Training
VI Visitor
VIB Qualified Baby of Visitor
VILTP Visitor- Liver Transplant
VMO Visiting Medical Officer – Medical Officer with visiting/admission rights to hospital
VMS Value Management Study
VNC Visitor – Non Chargeable
VOD Visitor- Organ Donor
VR Visitor- Reciprocal Rights
VRE Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci
VRSA Vancomycin Staphylococcos Aureus
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VRUB Unqualified Baby of Reciprocal Patient
VTB Visitor – TB patient
VUB Unqualified Baby of Visitor
VVOC Visitor – Victim of Crime
W
WAND Ward Activity Nursing Display
WBCIS Web-based Breast Cancer Information System
WC Patient covered by Workers Compensation Insurance
WebDOHRS Web based system for reporting of non-admitted activity to Department of Health (see WebNAP below)
Webi Report writing tool used to access patient data for service analysis and management purposes
WebNAP Web bases system for reporting of non admitted activity to Department of Health – new system replacing webDOHRs from
WebReq Web based system for raising purchasing requisitions
WLCOS Waiting List information management system
WMD Westmead
WRAPP Waste Reduction and Purchasing Policy
WSCIAC Western Sydney Clinical Informatics Advisory Committee
WSLHD Western Sydney Local Health District
WSML Western Sydney Medical Local
Y
YAR Yaralla Building (Cumberland)
YTD Year To Date
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