Acronyms

Throughout this site acronyms may be used as abbreviations for organization names, titles, inter-governmental bodies and initiatives, business methodologies, etc. This page offers some definitions which you may find helpful:

A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y

AAL	Active Ambient Living
AAL	Active Assisted Living
ACCEPT	Advance Care Planning Evaluation in Elderly Patients
ACE	Acute Care for Elders
ACP	Advance Care Planning
ADE	Adverse Drug Event
ADL	Activities of Daily Living
AGE-WELL	Aging Gracefully across Environments using technology to support Wellness, Engagement and Long-Life
AIHS	Alberta Innovates: Health Solutions
AKI	Acute Kidney Injury
ASILA	Applied Simulated and Integrated Learning Approach
AU	Australia
AVR	Aortic Valve Replacement

BABEL

Better tArgeting, Better outcomes for frail ELderly patients

CA	Chartered Accountant
CAC	Centre for Advanced Computing
CAC	Community Care Centre
CAD-EOLD	Comfort Assessment in Dying with End-of-Life Dementia
CADTH	Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
CAHS	Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
CAHSPR	Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research
CAMH	Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
cApps	communication Application
CARENET	Canadian Researchers at the End-of-Life Network
CAT	Catalyst Grant
CBC	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CCCA	Champlain Community Care Access Centre
CCCTG	Canadian Critical Care Trails Group
CCFP	Certification in Family Medicine
CDR	Clinical Decision Rule
CEDeComS	Connecting Emergency Departments with Community Services to Prevent Mobility Losses in Pre-frail & frail Seniors
CEO	Chief Executive Officer
CETI	Canadian Emergency Team Intitiative
CFHI	Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement
CFIR	Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research
CFN	Canadian Frailty Network
CFS	Clinical Frailty Scale
CFU	Colony Forming Units
CGA	Comprehensive Geratric Assessment
CHOICE	Choosing Healthcare Options by Involving Canada’s Elderly
CHPCA	Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
CHU	Centre Hospitalier Universitaire
CHUM	Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal
CI	Cognitive Impairment
CI	Co-Investigator
CIHI	Canadian Institute for Health Information
CIHR	Canadian Institutes of Health Research
CIHR IA	Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Aging
CIUSS	Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux
CJA	Canadian Journal on Aging
CLSA	Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging
CMA	Canadian Medical Association
CMAJ	Canadian Medical Association Journal
CNA	Canadian Nurses Association
CODE	Centre for Ontario Data Exploration
Co-I	Co-Investigator
CPA	Chartered Professional Accountant
CPCSSN	Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network
CPSI	Canadian Patient Safety Institute
CSNAT	Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool
CSSS VC	Centre de Santé et de Services Sociaux de la Vieille-Capitale
CSSS-CAU	Centre de Santé et de Services Sociaux – Centre Affilié Universitaire

DABIM	Diplomat American Board of Internal Medicine
DECIDE II COMMUNICATE	Decision-making about goals of care for hospitalized medical patients II: a Communication Intervention
DIVERT	Detection of Indicators and Vulnerabilities of Emergency Room Trips
DMP	Digital Management Platform
DSEN	Drug Safety and Effectiveness Network

EASE-BIO	Elder-friendly Approaches to the Surgical Environment-using Biological Samples
ECG	Electrocardiogram
ED	Emergency Department
ED	Executive Director
EDC	Electronic Data Capture
EEG	Electroencephalogram
eFI	Electronic Frailty Index
EFT	Essential Frailty Toolset
eHome	electronic Home Monitoring to Empower
EMR	Electronic Medical Record
EMS	Emergency Medical Services
EN	Evidence Network
EOI	Expression of Interest
EOL	End-of-Life

FAAN	Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing
FACT	Frailty Assessment for Care planning Tool
FCFP	Fellowship in the College of Family Physicians
FDC	Fellow of Dietitians of Canada
FE-EoL	Frail Elderly Patients nearing End-of-Life
FGI	Focus Group Interviews
FI	Frailty Index
FI-LAB	Frailty Index Derived from Laboratory Values
FOCUS	Frailty Assessments of Older Canadians Using Emergency Services
FP	Frailty Phenotype
FRA	Frailty Grant
FRAMING-LTC	Frailty and Recognizing Appropriate Medications in Geriatrics and Long-Term Care
FRCPC	Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada
FRCSC	Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada
FRS	Fellow of the Royal Society

GDP	Gross Domestic Product
GRADE	Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation

HC	Homecare
HP	Hip Fractures
HQP	Highly Qualified Personnel
HSPR	Health Services and Policy Research
HTIG	Health Technology Innovation Grant

IBM	International Business Machines Corporation
iCare	inform Caregivers and Robotic Effectors
ICES	Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
ICNARC	Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre
ICU	Intensive Care Unit
iDECIDE	Improving Decision-making about goals of care for hospitalized elderly patients
IFP	Interdisciplinary Fellowship Program
iGAP	improving General Practice Advance Care Planning
iKT	Integrated Knowledge Translation
IMC	Innovative Medicines Canada
INPAC	Integrated Nutrition Pathway for Acute Care
iOS	iPhone Operating System
IP	Intellectual Property
IP	Interprofessional
IQR	Interquartile Range
ISAC	International Scientific Advisory Committee
ISMP	Institute for Safe Medication Practices
ITP	Interdisciplinary Training Program

KGH	Kingston General Hospital
KM	Knowledge Mobilization
KPI	Key Performance Indicator
KR	South Korea
KS	Knowledge Synthesis
KT	Knowledge Translation
KTA	Knowledge-to-Action
KTEE	Knowledge and Translation Exchange and Exploitation

LGBT	Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
LHIN	Local Health Integration Network
LOCUS	Level of Care Utilization System
LTC	Long-Term Care
LTCF	Long-Term Care Facility
LTRC	Long-Term Residential Care

MAR	Medication Administration Record
MCT	Mobile Communication Technology
MD	Doctor of Medicine
MDCM	Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery
MDS	Minimum Data Set
MERA	Medication Rationalization
mHealth	mobile Health
MHSc	Master of Health Science
MIC	Minimal Important Change
MID	Minimal Important Difference
MOHLTC	Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
MOU	Memorandum of Understanding
MPA	Medical-Psychiatry Alliance
MPH	Master of Public Health
MSc (Epid)	Master of Science in Epidemiology
MSc	Master of Science
MSH	Mount Sinai Hospital
MSI	Medical Services Incorporated
MSN	Master of Science in Nursing

NBHSRF	New Brunswick Health Services Research Foundation
NCE	Networks of Centres of Excellence
NGO	Non-Governmental Organizations
NH	Nursing Home
NICE	National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
NL	Netherlands
NSCP	Nutrition Screening & Care Pathway
NSERC	Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
NUTRIC	Nutrition and Rehabilitation Investigators Consortium

OARS	Older Americans Resources and Services
Op-ed	Opinion-Editorial
OPTIC	Older Persons’ Transitions in Care
OPTICS	Outcome and Research Priorities in Intensive Care Studies
OT	Occupational Therapy

PCN	Primary Care Network
PCORI	Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
PFSS	Patient Familly Support System
PHC	Primary Healthcare
PhD	Doctor of Philosophy
PHR	Patient Health Record
PI	Principal Investigator
PIED	Programme Intégré d’Équilibre Dynamique
PIM	Potentially Inappropriate Medication
PL	Project Leader
PREM	Patient/Family Reported Experience Measures
PRISMA	Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
PROM	Patient/Family Reported Outcome Measures
PROSPECT	Prevention of Severe Pneumonia and Endotracheal Colonization Trial
PT	Physiotherapy

QA	Quality Assurance
QC	Quality Control
QELCCC	Quality End-of-Life Care Coalition of Canada
QI	Quality Indicator
QOL	Quality-of-Life
QPSS	Quality-of-Life Assessment and Practice Support System

RAI	Resident Assessment Intrument
RCSPF	Réseau canadien des soins aux personnes fragilisées
RCT	Randomized Control Trial
RD	Registered Dietitian
RDI	Réseau de l’Information
REB	Research Ethics Board
REDCap	Research Electronic Data Capture
RFP	Request for Proposal
RI	Research Imperative
RMC	Research Management Committee
RN	Registered Nurse
RRR	Relative Risk Reduction

SD	Scientific Director
SD	Standard Deviation
SDM	Shared Decision-Making
SENIOR	Screening Elderly Patients For Inclusion in a Weaning Trial
SHARP	Seniors Helping as Research Partners
SHRF	Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation
SIG	Strategic Impact Grant
SM	Master of Science
SOS	Serious Outcomes Surveillance
SPA	Summer Program in Aging
SPOR	Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research
SQLI	Seniors Quality Leap Initiative
SRC	Scientific Review Committee
SSA	Summer Student Award
SSHRC	Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer
STOPP	Screening Tool of Older Persons’ potentially inappropriate Prescriptions

TBI	Traumatic Brain Injury
TFI	Tilburg Frailty Indicator
TG	Transformative Grant
THP	Trillium Health Partners
TT	Tablet Technology
TVN	Technology Evaluation in the Elderly Network

UCLA	University of California, Los Angeles
UK	United Kingdom
UM	Utilization Management

VAP	Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
VHA	Visiting Homemakers Association
VPN	Virtual Private Network

WBVC	Web-Based Videoconferencing
WHII	World Health Innovation Institute
WHO	World Health Organization

XNAT

eXtensible Neuroimaging Archive Toolkit

YMCA

Young Men’s Christian Association