Physician Staffing for the VA: Volume I (1991)

ADC —

Average daily census

BDOC —

Bed—days of care

BMTU —

Bone marrow transplant unit

CAPWWU —

Capitation Weighted Work Unit

C&A —

Consulting and attending (physician)

CCU —

Coronary care unit

CDR —

Cost Distribution Report

CNS —

Clinical nurse specialist

COGME —

Council on Graduate Medical Education

COS —

Chiefs of staff

CRNA —

Certified registered nurse anesthetist

DoD —

Department of Defense

DRG —

Diagnosis—related group

DSE —

Detailed Staffing Exercise

EBPSM —

Empirically Based Physician Staffing Models

FT —

Full—time

FTEE —

Full—Time—Equivalent Employees

FY —

Fiscal year

GEU —

Geriatric evaluation unit

GMENAC —

Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee

GRECC —

Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center

HMO —

Health maintenance organization

HBHC —

Hospital—based home care

ICU —

Intensive care unit

IHS —

Indian Health Service

IOM —

Institute of Medicine

IPF —

Inverse production function

JCAHO —

Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

LOS —

Length of stay

LP —

Linear programming

LTC —

Long—term care

MAD —

Mean absolute deviation

MEDIPP —

Medical District Initiated Program Planning

MICU —

Medical intensive care unit

NP —

Nurse practitioner

NPP —

Nonphysician practitioner

OPS —

Other Physician Services (serving to define one of six ambulatory PCAs at the VAMC)

PA —

Physician assistant

PCA —

Patient care area

PF —

Production function

PGY —

Postgraduate year

PSA —

Primary service area

PT —

Part—time

PTF —

Patient Treatment File

PTSD —

Post—traumatic stress disorder

RAM —

Resource Allocation Methodology

RBRVS —

Resource—Based Relative Value Scale

RMS —

Rehabilitation medicine service

RPM —

Resource Planning and Management (methodology)

RUG —

Resource Utilization Group

RUGWWU —

Resource Utilization Group Weighted Work Unit

SADI —

Staffing Algorithm Development Instrument

SCI —

Spinal cord injury

SICU —

Surgical intensive care unit

VA —

Department of Veterans Affairs

VAMC —

Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center

VHA —

Veterans Health Administration

WOC —

Without—compensation (physician)

WWU —

Weighted Work Unit