![]() For clinical stuff BioMedSearch seems a pretty comprehensive database. Allglossary has 1702 glossaries listed in 242 Categories, and Acronym Finder claims to have 186,000 entries in its database. Acronyms And Initialisms For Health Information Resources compiled by Marie-Lise Antoun is the most impressive multilingual list, but hers, like this one, is not longer updated. Most of the others are designed for professionals. ![]() This one is designed for lay people interested in the British National Health Service and welfare state. You can find other glossaries on the Internet. And a few are internet terms, but they get everywhere these days Some are doctors’ slang or offensive – or both – but as you may find them in your notes I make no apology for including them. Some of the explanations in the glossary are a bit quick and dirty, so may give an inaccurate picture, particularly of complex organisations. Managers can get help if they can’t manage to communicate with ordinary mortals. If you are on the receiving end of incomprehensible documents supposedly produced for the public or for users of services please complain. It would be better if people spell out exactly what they mean, at least the first time round, but they don’t, so I hope this list will help. ![]() They are also very helpful in understanding exactly what people mean when they use unfamiliar words. If you are looking for information about a medical condition you might like to try UK Self Help, which has a very good list of helpful organisations, mostly run by people by people with personal experience of the condition. Terms included are mostly those discussed by managers and politicians (usually because they cost money) or which you may find included in medical notes. I have, I am afraid, stopped updating the list, as Google seems to work well enough for terms that are in current use. I must thank Mervyn Monks of South Gloucestershire LINk who contributed a substantial collection of new acronyms. I have tried to include Scottish, Irish, and Welsh terms. ![]() It has a regional bias towards Manchester, but jargon in the rest of the UK is not very different. This glossary was intended to help lay people to understand what people in health and social care are talking about when they use acronyms. ![]()
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