The phrase "ama status" is not correct in standard written English and lacks clarity.
It may be used in informal contexts, possibly as shorthand or slang, but it is not widely recognized or accepted.
Example: "I just checked my ama status, and it looks like I have a lot of questions to answer."
Alternatives: "my AMA standing" or "my AMA position".
We performed external validation of the AMA designation in the administrative data, using 291 hospital abstracts where true AMA status was identified by reading the final nurse and physician progress notes in the hospital charts.
In such a cohort, the indication of AMA status in the hospital abstracts would have a positive predictive value of 100%, and a negative predictive value of 99.86%.
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were genotyped in 395 PBC patients and 458 healthy subjects of Japanese ethnicity and evaluated for associations with PBC susceptibility, anti-nuclear antibody (ANA) status, and anti-mitochondrial antibody (AMA) status.
In doing so, the AMA, buoyed by its status as the largest association of doctors and medical students in the United States, became a powerful, and consistently conservative voice on Capitol Hill.
Our aim was, to analyze the simultaneous interactions of teen/advanced maternal age (AMA), race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status on the odds of NICU admission.
NICU: Neonatal intensive care unit; AMA: Advanced maternal age; SES: Socioeconomic status; CSLD: Consortium of safe labor database; ACOG: American congress of obstetricians and gynecologists.
Health literacy has been identified as "a stronger predictor of a person's health than their age, income, employment status, education level, and race" (AMA, 2007).
A five-minute consultation with Wikipedia taught me that the AMA has long been a great defender of the "status quo" in health care, even credited with inventing the term "socialized medicine" in the early 1900s.
Individual characteristics included gender, age at inclusion into the AMA-AC program (M0 = Month 0), health insurance coverage, familial status (i.e., whether patients lived alone or not), level of education, occupational status, and salary per month.
Second, it failed to adjust for all confounding/intermediate variables, which may affect the obstetric outcomes in AMA, but are not commonly collected in the administrative database, such as pregestational body mass index, socioeconomic status, educational level, marital status, smoking practices and alcohol exposure.
Other variables associated with leaving AMA have been younger age, male sex, membership in a visible minority, lower socioeconomic status, absence of health insurance, substance abuse, psychiatric disorders, and urban residency [ 1- 7, 9- 17].
