Health Care Efficiency Measures, List of Acronyms/Abbreviations

Health Care Efficiency Measures

List of Acronyms/Abbreviations

Acronym/Abbreviation	Description/Name
ACG	Adjusted Clinical Groups
AHA	American Hospital Association
AHRQ	Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
AQA	Ambulatory Quality Alliance
APR	All Patient Refined
CMS	Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
COLS	Corrected ordinary least squares
DEA	Data envelopment analysis
DRG	Diagnosis-related groups
EPC	Evidence-based Practice Center
ER	Emergency room
ETG	Episode Treatment Groups
FTE	Full-time equivalent
HIT	Health information technology
I/O	Input/output
IHA	Integrated Healthcare Association
IHCIS	Integrated Healthcare Information Services, Inc.
IOM	Institute of Medicine
JCAHO	Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
LPN	Licensed practical nurse
MEG	Medstat Episode Groups
NCQA	National Committee for Quality Assurance
O/E	Observed/expected ratio
PPMS	Provider Performance Measurement System
RN	Registered nurse
SFA	Stochastic frontier analysis
TEP	Technical expert panel
VA	Veterans Administration Health System