| DHHS | — | Department of Health and Human Services |
| FDA | — | Food and Drug Administration |
| FWA | — | Federal-Wide Assurance |
| HIPAA | — | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
| HSC | — | Human Subjects Committee |
| IRB | — | Institutional Review Board (UW-Parkside Human Subjects Committee) |
| FWA | — | Federal-Wide Assurance |
| NIH | — | National Institutes of Health |
| PHI | — | protected health information |
| QA | — | quality assessment |
| QI | — | QI quality improvement |