| AAHP American Association of Health Plans, http://www.aahp.org/ |
| AAHRPP Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protections Programs, http://www.aahrpp.org/ |
| ACCME Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, http://www.accme.org/ |
| ACCP American College of Clinical Pharmacy, http://www.accp.com/ |
| ACR American College of Radiology, http://www.acr.org/ |
| ACRP Association of Clinical Research Professionals, http://www.acrpnet.org/ |
| ADE Adverse Drug Event |
| ADR Adverse Drug Reaction |
| AE Adverse Event |
| AOIR Association of Internet Researchers, http://www.aoir.org/ |
| ARENA Applied Research Ethics National Association, www.arena.org/ |
| ATTC Addiction Technology Transfer Center, http://www.nattc.org/ |
| BCOP Board Certified Oncology Pharmacist |
| BCP Birth Control Pills |
| CABG Cardiac/Coronary Artery Bypass Graft |
| CALGB Cancer and Leukemia Group B, http://www.calgb.org/ |
| CBER Center for Biologics and Research, http://www.fda.gov/cber/ |
| CCCG Children's Cooperative/Cancer Group (now COG), http://www.childrensoncologygroup.org/ |
| CCOP Childhood Cancer Ombudsman Program or Community Clinical Oncology Program, |
| CCSG Children's Cancer Study Group (now known as CCG) |
| CDER Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (US - FDA), http://www.fda.gov/cder/ |
| CDRH Center for Devices and Radiological Health (US FDA), http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/ |
| CE Covered Entity |
| CFR Code of Federal Regulations |
| CIHR Canadian Institute for Health Research, http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/193.html |
| CIM Certified IRB Manager |
| CIOMS Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences, http://www.cioms.ch/ |
| CIP Certified IRB Professional |
| CIRB Central Institutional Review Board of the NCI, http://www.ncicirb.org |
| CLIA Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act/Amendment |
| CMHS Center for Mental Health Services/Community Mental Health Services, http://www.mentalhealth.org/cmhs/ |
| CMS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, http://cms.hhs.gov/medicaid/default.asp |
| CME Continuing Medical Education |
| COC Certificate of Confidentiality |
| COG Cooperative Oncology Groups funded by NCI: See also CCG, COG, ECOG, GOG, RTOG, POG, CALGP, |
| COG Children's Oncology Group, http://www.childrensoncologygroup.org/ |
| COGR Council on Government Relations, http://www.cogr.edu/ |
| COI Conflict of Interest |
| CORP NIH Council of Public Representatives, http://copr.nih.gov |
| CPA Cooperative Project Assurance |
| CR Common Rule |
| CRA Clinical Research Associate |
| CRC Clinical Research Coordinator |
| CRF Case Report Form |
| CRO Clinical Research Organization/Contract Research Organization |
| DHEW Department of Health, Education and Welfare (no longer exists) |
| DHHS Department of Health and Human Services (replaced DHEW), http://www.hhs.gov/ |
| DIA Drug Information Association |
| DMC Data Monitoring Committee |
| DOE (US) Department of Education, http://www.ed.gov/ |
| DSMB Data Safety Monitoring Board |
| EBM Evidence-based medicine |
| ECOG Eastern Co-operative Oncology Group, http://www.ecog.org/ |
| ECRI Emergency Care Research Institute, http://www.ecri.org/ |
| EQUIC Enhancing Quality of Informed Consent |
| ER Emergency Room |
| FDA Food and Drug Administration, http://www.fda.gov/ |
| FERPA Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (aka the Buckley Amendment), |
| FDLI Food and Drug Law Institute, http://www.fdli.org/ |
| FWA Federal Wide Assurance |
| GCP Good Clinical Practice |
| GeMCRIS Genetic Modification Clinical Research Information System |
| GMP Good Manufacturing Practice |
| GOG Gynecologic Oncology Group, http://www.gog.org/ |
| GTSAB Gene Transfer Safety Assessment Board |
| HCFA Health Care Financing Administration (now known as CMS; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) |
| HDE Humanitarian Device Exemption (what a HUD is classified as) |
| HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
| HMO Health Maintenance Organization |
| HPA Human Protections Administrator |
| HRP Human Research Protections |
| HREC Human Research Ethics Committee |
| HRT Hormone Replacement Therapy |
| HSR Health Services Research |
| HUD Humanitarian Use Device |
| IACUC Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, http://www.iacuc.org/ |
| IB Investigator's Brochure |
| IBC Institutional Biohazard Committee (needed in gene transfer research). Also Inflammatory Breast Cancer |
| ICD Informed Consent Document |
| ICF Individual Consent Form or Institutional Consent Form |
| ICH International Conference on Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals |
| ICH-GCP International Conference on Harmonization Good Clinical Practice, |
| ICMJE International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, http://www.icmje.org/ |
| ICS Informed Consent Statements |
| ICU Intensive Care Unit |
| IDB Investigator's Drug Brochure |
| IDE Investigational Device Exemption |
| IEC Institutional Ethics Committee/Independent Ethics Committee |
| IND Investigational New Drug (application) |
| IRB Institutional Review Board |
| IRSG Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study Group |
| JCAHO Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, http://www.jcaho.org/ |
| JIT Just in Time (procedure) |
| LAR Legally Authorized Representative |
| LCME Liason Committee for Medical Education, http://www.lcme.org/ |
| LDS Limited Data Set |
| LEP Limited English Prociency |
| LTF Long-Term Facilitation/Long-Term Fellowship |
| LTF Subjects Lost to Follow-up Subjects |
| MI Myocardial Infarction (heart attack) |
| MPA Multiple Project Assurance |
| MSM Men who have Sex with Men |
| MSO Medical Staff Office |
| N |
| NABTC North American Brain Tumor Consortium, http://www.nabtc.org/ |
| NAIM National Association of IRB Managers, http://www.naim.org/ |
| NAIAD Nerve Agent Immobilized Enzyme Alarm & Detector |
| NBAC National Bioethics Advisory Commission, http://www.bioethics.gov/ |
| NCCTG North Central Cancer Treatment Group, http://ncctg.mayo.edu/ |
| NCI National Cancer Institute, http://www.nci.nih.gov/ |
| NCIC CTG National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trial Group, http://www.ncic.cancer.ca |
| NCPHSBBR National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research |
| NCQA National Committee for Quality Assurance (currently responsible for accreditation of VA research programs) |
| NDA New Drug Application |
| NICU Neonatal Intensive Care Unit |
| NHRPAC National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee, http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/nhrpac/nhrpac.htm |
| NIA Nonaffiliated Investigator Agreement |
| NIH National Institutes of Health, http://www.nih.gov/ |
| NSABP National Surgical Adjuvant Breast & Bowel Project, http://www.nsabp.pitt.edu/ |
| NSAID Non-Steroid Anti-Inflammatory Drug |
| NSR Non significant Risk |
| NRMI National Registry of Myocardial Infarction, http://www.nrmi.org/ |
| NWTSG National Wilms' Tumor Study Group, http://www.nwtsg.org/ |
| OBA Office of Biotechnology Activities, http://www4.od.nih.gov/oba/ |
| OCR Office of Civil Rights, http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/ |
| OHRP Office of Human Research Protections (formerly OPRR), http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/ |
| OLES Open Label Extension Studies |
| OPRR (now OHRP) http://grants.nih.gov/grants/oprr/oprr.htm |
| OR Operating Room |
| ORA Office of Regulatory Affairs/Office of Research Administration, http://www.fda.gov/ora/ |
| ORCA Office of Research Oversight, Veterans Health Administration, (formerly ORCA) http://www1.va.gov/oro/ |
| ORI Office of Research Integrity, http://ori.dhhs.gov/ |
| OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration, http://www.osha.gov/ |
| PACTG |
| PCP Primary Care Physician |
| PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction (technique to replicate fragment of DNA for genetic analysis) |
| PD Program Director |
| PDUFA Prescription Drug User Fee Act of 1992 |
| PHI Private Healthcare Information/Public Health Information/Protected Health Information |
| PHS Public Health Service (see also USPHS United States Public Health Service), |
| PI Principal Investigator |
| P&P Policies and Procedures |
| PM Project Manager |
| PMA Pre Market Approval |
| PPRA Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment, http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_00/34cfr98_00.html |
| POA Power of Attorney |
| POG Pediatric Oncology Group (merged with CCG, now COG), http://www.childrensoncologygroup.org/ |
| PRIM&R Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research, http://www.primr.org |
| QA Quality Assurance |
| QC Quality Control |
| QI Quality Improvement |
| QIC Quality Improvement Committee |
| QIP Quality Improvement Program |
| QOL Quality of Life |
| RAC Recombinant-DNA Advisory Committee |
| RAPS Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society, http://www.raps.org/ |
| RCO Regulatory Compliance Officer |
| RCR Responsible Conduct of Research |
| RCT Randomized Control Trial |
| REB Research Ethics Board |
| RFP Request for Proposal |
| RTOG Radiation Therapy Oncology Group, http://www.rtog.org/ |
| SAE Serious Adverse Events |
| SAP Suspect Adverse Reaction |
| SBIR Small Business Innovative Research |
| SC Study Coordinator |
| SCID Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease |
| SIDCER Strategic Initiative for Developing Capacity in Ethical Review, http://www.sidcer.net/ |
| SMO Site Management Organization |
| SOP Standard Operating Procedure |
| SPA Single Project Assurance |
| SR Safety Report/Significant Risk |
| SRO Sponsored Research Office |
| SWOG South West Oncology Group, http://www.swog.org/ |
| TCPS Tri-Council Policy Statement, http://www.pre.ethics.gc.ca/english/ policystatement/policystatement.cfm |
| URI Upper Respiratory Infection |
| USPHS United States Public Health Service, http://www.hhs.gov/pharmacy/pp/DHHSpresent/ |
| VA Veteran's Affairs, http://www.va.gov/ |
| VPR Vice President for Research |
| WHI Women's Health Initiative, http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/whi/ |
| WMA World Medical Association, http://www.wma.net/e/ |