| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| SaaS | Software as a Service (previously known as ASP, application service provider) |
| SACAR | Specialist Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance (UK, Dept. of Health) |
| SAD | Single ascending dose |
| SAE | Serious adverse event |
| SAP | Surgical antibiotic prophylaxis |
| SBL | Serine β-lactamase |
| SI | Selective index |
| SIRS | Systemic inflammatory response syndrome |
| SME | Small and medium-sized enterprise ( |
| SNOMED | Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms vs. DSM-IV and ICD-10. These are other standards for common language in medicine. The former, DSM-IV is American and stands for: Diagnostic and Statistic Manual version 4 and the latter is WHO’s system: International Classification of Diseases, version 10. |
| SOC | Standard of care |
| SSI | Surgical site infection |
| ST | Sequence type |
| STAAR | Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resistance, US act introduced November 2007 |