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ABBREVIATIONS INSTITUTIONS AND MEDICAL TERMS ACC American College of Cardiology AHA American Heart Association BBA Balanced Budget Act of 1997 CPI Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. DDD Dual-chamber universal pacing (AV universal pacing) DDDR Dual-chamber rate-responsive pacing ECG Electrocardiograph or electrocardiogram EP Electrophysiology or electrophysiologist FDA Food and Drug Administration HCFA Health Care Financing Administration ICD Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator NASPE North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology NHLBI National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute NIH National Institutes of Health OSRD Office of Scientific Research and Development OTA Office of Technology Assessment RBRVS Resource-Based Relative Value Scale RF Radiofrequency VOO Asynchronous or fixed-rate ventricular pacing VVI Ventricular inhibited or ‘‘demand’’ pacing VVIR Ventricular inhibited rate-responsive pacing ANNALS AND JOURNALS The abbreviations used for titles of publications are those to be found in Index Medicus. Acta Chir Scand Acta Chiturgica Scandinavica Acta Med Scand Acta Medica Scandinavica Am Heart J American Heart Journal Am J Cardiol American Journal of Cardiology Am J Med American Journal of Medicine Am J Med Sci American Journal of Medical Science Am J Physiol American Journal of Physiology Ann Cardiol Angéiol Annales de cardiologie et d’angéiologie Ann Intern Med Annals of Internal Medicine Ann N Y Acad Sci Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Ann Roy Coll Surg Eng Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 298 ABBREVIATIONS Ann Surg Annals of Surgery Ann Thorac Surg Annals of Thoracic Surgery Arch Intern Med Archives of Internal Medicine Arch Surg Archives of Surgery Br Heart J British Heart Journal Br Med J British Medical Journal Bull Hist Med Bulletin of the History of Medicine Cardiol Clin Cardiology Clinics Cardiovasc Clin Cardiovascular Clinics Clin Cardiol Clinical Cardiology Dis Chest Diseases of the Chest IEEE Trans Biomed Eng IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering Int J Tech Assess in Health Care International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care Israel J Med Sci Israel Journal of Medical Science J Am Coll Cardiol Journal of the American College of Cardiology J Am Med Assoc Journal of the American Medical Association J Anat Physiol Journal of Anatomy and Physiology J Exp Med Journal of Experimental Medicine J Health Polit Policy Law Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law J Hist Med Journal of the History of Medicine J Lab Clin Med Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine J Med Eng Tech Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology J Physiol Journal of Physiology J Surg Res Journal of Surgical Research J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Lab Clin Med Laboratory and Clinical Medicine MD&DI Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry (www.devicelink .com/mddi/) Med Hist Medical History Med Instrum Medical Instrumentation Med Res Eng Medical Research Engineering Med World News Medical World News Milbank Q Milbank Quarterly N Engl J Med New England Journal of Medicine N Y State J Med New York State Journal of Medicine Pacing Clin Electrophysiol Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology [PACE] Proc Roy Soc Med Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine Proc Soc Exper Biol & Med Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine Prog Cardiovasc Dis Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases Rev Sci Instrum Review of Scientific Instrumentation Rev Surg Review of Surgery Surg Forum Surgical Forum T&C Technology and Culture Trans Am Soc Artif Int Org Transactions of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs ...

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