Guide to using the BJHC Abbreviary

• Part 1 contains primarily abbreviations and acronyms used in healthcare informatics, with a sprinkling of miscellaneous entries thought likely to be useful.
• Part 2 contains entries relevant to management and administration in the NHS, including abbreviations used in clinical practice and some of the commoner informatics entries.

Most of the entries are in capitals, but a number that are normally written in lower case have been reproduced in that form.

In this online version of the Abbreviary, the two parts are denoted by a '1' or '2' after the description.

Categories

The categories reflect often arbitrary classifications used during compilation. They are not cast in stone, and in many cases a term could well be classified in two or more ways. The categories are given merely as a broad guide when an abbreviation is unfamiliar and its context is insufficiently informative. The categories used in each section are:

Use of parentheses (brackets)

In the abbreviations, square brackets have been used to indicate additional letters that may be encountered at times. For instance, BD[ent]Sci means that either BDSc or BDentSci may be found. Round brackets, on the other hand, are part of the abbreviation.

A solidus (/) indicates that alternative endings, eg manager/ment implies 'manager' or 'management'.

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