What is the medical term QI?
The QI abbreviation may have multiplied meanings. However, what is QI in medical terms?
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What does QI medical abbreviation mean?
In medicine, the medical abbreviation QI stands for quality improvement.
QI: quality improvement
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| BFR | blood flow rate |
| BOH | board of health |
| Band | banded neutrophil |
| C/D | Cup to Disk ratio |
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| CPA | cerebellopontine angle; costophrenic angle |
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| D/O | Disorder |
| DOC | deoxycorticosterone; drug of choice |
| DPM | Doctor of Podiatric Medicine |
| E&A | evaluate and advise |
| EEG | Electroencephalogram |
| ENA | extractable nuclear antigen |
| EPO | Erythropoeitin |
| EPSDT | early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment |
| ESO | esophagus |
| FACR | Fellow of the American College of Radiology |
| FNAC | fine-needle aspiration cytology |
| GTH | gonadotropic hormone |
| GVL | graft-versus-leukemia |
| HLA | human leukocyte antigen; human lymphocyte antigen |
| IADL | instrumental activities of daily living |
| ICCE | intracapsular cataract extraction |
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| LTE | life-threatening event; less than effective |
| MR | Mitral Regurgitation |
| NHIC | national health information center |
| NMDA | N-methyl D-aspartate |
| NST | non-stress test |
| PASG | pneumatic anti-shock garments |
| PDGF | platelet-derived growth factor |
| PERL | pupils equal and react to light |
| Pa | Pascal |
| Paco2 | partial pressure of carbon dioxide in alveolar gas |
| RPh | registered pharmacist |
| RST | regular sinus tachycardia |
| SAARD | slow-acting antirheumatic drug(s) |
| SGOT | serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase |
| SOAPIER | subjective, objective, assessment, plan, intervention, evaluation, response |
| SRT | speech reception threshold on audiometry |
| STI | sexually transmitted infection |
| Sv | sievert (unit) |
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| UN | united nations |
| qPM | Each evening. As in taking a medicine each evening. |
| sol | solution |
| vit | vitamin |
