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The official recording of births, deaths, marriages, and divorces, with maintenance of permanent records.  

The recording of patient information in a registry (data), such as a cancer, trauma, or tuberculosis registry.  

A process established by a governmental or non¬ governmental agency under which individuals meeting the agency’s requirements can be recorded on an official roster (“registry”) and can use “registered” (“registered nurse,” for example) as a credential with the public and with their employment.  

A governmental official whose duty it is to keep official records. There are a number of kinds of registrars keeping, for example, vital statistics such as births, deaths, marriages, and divorces, and legal documents such as deeds.  

A respiratory therapist awarded the credential of registration (credentials) by the National Board of Respiratory Therapy.  

A credential provided by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) to a medical record administrator (MRA) who has met AHIMA’s standards for sitting for its registration examination in medical record science, and who has passed the examination. AHIMA until 1991 was known as the American Medical Record Association (AMRA). A person registered by the…

A category of care giver proposed by the American Medical Association (AMA) in 1988 in an effort to alleviate the nursing shortage. RCTs would have been required to have little education before entering a brief training program, after which they would have been “registered under an arm of the state medical board” (not the state…

A term being widely used to describe the process of studying various aspects of health care and making changes in organization, procedures, or resources with the aim of increasing efficienty and/or effectiveness.  

Providing individual patients or patient populations with recreational activities to improve, restore, or maintain their physical and mental well-being. Activities may include arts and crafts, sports, outings, social gatherings, and so forth. The provider is called a therapeutic recreation specialist. Sometimes called activities therapy.  

The money awarded by a court to the successful plaintiff in a lawsuit. The term can also mean the amount of money actually collected.