Acronyms unpacked 1 | Page|updated April 2018 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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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