Physician Staffing for the VA: Volume II, Supplementary Papers (1992)

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

MP -

Marginal product

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