Explanations of acronyms that HHA use
Have you ever wondered why you can't read a doctor's note or the letters and numbers on a prescription? Or have you ever seen an acronym used on HHA’s social media and wondered what this meant?
Our healthcare professionals often use acronyms and medical terminology for many conditions, healthcare technology and instructions to their patients. We thought it might be helpful to share a list of the acronyms that are used the most across HHA and what these mean:
NICU - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
SCI - Spinal Cord Injury
UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
CRADLE - Community blood pressure monitoring in Rural Africa & Asia: Detection of underLying pre-Eclampsia and shock
A&E - Accident & Emergency
HCBH - Hopital de la Convention Baptist d’Haiti
M&E - Monitoring & Evaluation
OPM - Office of the Prime Minister
P&O - Prosthetics and Orthotics
PWD - People/Persons with disabilities
CWD - Child with disabilities
IDP - Internally Displaced Person
CP - Cerebral Palsy
GAM - Global Acute Malnutrition
SAM - Severe Acute Malnutrition