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  2. SOAP note - Wikipedia

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    SOAP note. The SOAP note (an acronym for subjective, objective, assessment, and plan) is a method of documentation employed by healthcare providers to write out notes in a patient 's chart, along with other common formats, such as the admission note. [1][2] Documenting patient encounters in the medical record is an integral part of practice ...

  3. Sentence spacing in language and style guides - Wikipedia

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    In the 1990s, style guides reverted to recommending a single-space between sentences. However, instead of a slightly larger sentence space, style guides simply indicated a standard word space. This is now the convention for publishers. Style guides are important to writers since "virtually all professional editors work closely with one of them ...

  4. List of medical abbreviations: A - Wikipedia

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    A or Ala – alanine. C or Cys – cysteine. D or Asp – aspartic acid. E or Glu – glutamic acid. F or Phe – phenylalanine. H or His – histidine. I or Ile – isoleucine. K or Lys – lysine. L or Leu – leucine.

  5. Doctor (title) - Wikipedia

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    Doctor is an academic title that originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning. [1] The word is originally an agentive noun of the Latin verb docēre [dɔˈkeːrɛ] 'to teach'. It has been used as an academic title in Europe since the 13th century, when the first doctorates were awarded at the University of Bologna and the ...

  6. Single-payer healthcare - Wikipedia

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    The current healthcare system in Taiwan, known as National Health Insurance (NHI), was instituted in 1995. NHI is a single-payer compulsory social insurance plan which centralizes the disbursement of health care funds. The system promises equal access to health care for all citizens, and the population coverage had reached 99% by the end of ...

  7. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    As a general rule, this vowel almost always acts as a joint-stem to connect two consonantal roots (e.g. arthr-+ -o-+ -logy = arthrology), but generally, the -o-is dropped when connecting to a vowel-stem (e.g. arthr-+ -itis = arthritis, instead of arthr-o-itis). Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek ...

  8. AMA Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    e. AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors is the style guide of the American Medical Association. It is written by the editors of JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) and the JAMA Network journals and is most recently published by Oxford University Press. [1][2] It specifies the writing, editing, and citation styles ...

  9. Advance healthcare directive - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. An advance healthcare directive, also known as living will, personal directive, advance directive, medical directive or advance decision, is a legal document in which a person specifies what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions for themselves because of illness or incapacity. In the U.S ...