UW Research

Glossary of Terms and Acronyms

PI

Principal Investigator See Principal Investigator (PI) Personnel

PIT

Process Improvement Team (UW)

PMC

PubMed Central

PMCID

PubMed Central reference number (PMCID) unique identifier for articles archived in PubMed Central in compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy (mandatory compliance effective April 7)

PMID

PubMed unique identifier (PMID) assigned to each article as it is added to PubMed (will not meet the NIH guidelines)

PMS

Payment Management System (Federal draw down system)

PO

Purchase Order

POC

Point of Contact

primary completion date

The date when the final subject was examined or received an intervention for the purposes of final collection of data for the primary outcome, whether the…

Prime Award

Award that is the originating source of funding or other consideration from the prime sponsor, a part of which may be awarded to a subrecipient via…