| patient readmission | Subsequent admissions of a patient to a hospital or other health care institution for treatment. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| patient satisfaction | The degree to which the individual regards the health care service or product or the manner in which it is delivered by the provider as useful, effective, or beneficial. (12 Dec 1998) |
| patient selection | Criteria and standards used for the determination of the appropriateness of the inclusion of patients with specific conditions in proposed treatment plans and the criteria used for the inclusion of subjects in various clinical trials and other research protocols. (12 Dec 1998) |
| patient simulation | The use of persons coached to feign symptoms or conditions of real diseases in a life-like manner in order to teach or evaluate medical personnel. (12 Dec 1998) |
| patient transfer | Interfacility or intrahospital transfer of patients. Intrahospital transfer is usually to obtain a specific kind of care and interfacility transfer is usually for economic reasons as well as type of care provided. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Patient Zero | The individual identified in 1982 by the Centres for Disease Control as responsible for introducing the HIV virus into the U.S. Population. A Canadian citisen, Patient Zero was a homosexual airline steward who claimed to have had as many as 2,500 sexual encounters. CDC epidemiologists located 19 men in Los Angeles, 22 in New York City, and 8 in other cities who had contracted AIDS from contact with Patient Zero, the earliest known cases of the disease in the U.S. Revealed to be Gaetan Dugas, Patient Zero died in 1984 due to AIDS-related illness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| patient-centreed care | Design of patient care wherein institutional resources and personnel are organised around patients rather than around specialised departments. (12 Dec 1998) |
| patients | People who are ill or who are undergoing treatment for a disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| patients' rooms | Rooms occupied by one or more individuals during a stay in a health facility. The concept includes aspects of environment, design, care, or economics. (12 Dec 1998) |
| patio | <chemistry> A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc, are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation. The patioprocess is used to reduce silver ores by amalgamation. Origin: Sp, a court. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Patois virus | A serologic group of the genus Bunyavirus, comprising 4 species. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Paton's lines | Concentric lines on the surface of an abnormal retina. Synonym: Paton's lines. (05 Mar 2000) |
| patrial | Derived from the name of a country, and designating an inhabitant of the country; gentile; said of a noun. A patrial noun. Thus Romanus, a Roman, and Troas, a woman of Troy, are patrial nouns, or patrials. Origin: L. Patria fatherland, country, fr. Pater father. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| patriarch | 1. The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses. 2. A dignitary superior to the order of archbishops; as, the patriarch of Constantinople, of Alexandria, or of Antioch. 3. A venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively. "The patriarch hoary, the sage of his kith and the hamlet." (Longfellow) "The monarch oak, the partiarch of trees." (Dryde) Origin: F. Patriarche, L. Patriarcha, Gr, fr. Lineage, especially on the father's side, race; father + a leader, chief, fr. To lead, rule. See Father, Archaic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| patriarchal | 1. Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs; possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a patriarchal church. 2. Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable. "About whose patriarchal knee Late the little children clung." (Tennyson) 3. <ethnology> Having an organization of society and government in which the head of the family exercises authority over all its generations. Patriarchal cross, a cross, the shaft of which is intersected by two transverse beams, the upper one being the smaller. Patriarchal dispensation, the divine dispensation under which the patriarchs lived before the law given by Moses. Origin: Cf. F. Patriarcal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
Synonyms : Care, Patient-Centered, Care, Patient-Focused, Nursing, Patient Centered, Patient Centered Care, Patient Centered Nursing, Patient Focused Care
Synonyms : Clients, Client, Patient
Synonyms : General Ward, General Wards, Patient Room, Patient Rooms, Patient's Rooms, Patients Rooms, Patients' Room, Private Room, Room, Patient, Room, Patients', Room, Private, Room, Semi-Private, Rooms, Patients', Rooms, Private, Rooms, Semi-Private, Semi Private Rooms
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Synonyms : Automated Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition System, Pattern Recognition Systems
| pathophysiology |
Interruption or interference with normal physiologic and developmental processes or structures.
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| patient advocate |
A person who helps a patient work with others who have an effect on the patient's health, including doctors, insurance companies, employers, case managers, and lawyers. A patient advocate helps resolve issues about health care, medical bills, and job discrimination related to a patient's medical condition. Cancer advocacy groups try to raise public awareness about important cancer issues, such as the need for cancer support services, education, and research. ...
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| patient-controlled analgesia |
PCA. A method in which the patient controls the amount of pain medicine that is used. When pain relief is needed, the person can receive a preset dose of pain medicine by pressing a button on a computerized pump that is connected to a small tube in the body.
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| patent ductus arteriosus |
(PDA) abnormal persistence of an open lumen in the ductus arteriosus after birth, the direction of flow being from the aorta to the pulmonary artery, resulting in recirculation of arterial blood through the lungs.
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| patent bronchus sign |
the radiologic finding of an unobstructed bronchus supplying a collapsed lung, lobe, or segment.
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| PAT | with respect to pathology |
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| PAT | a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis |
| PAT | the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases |
| PAT | any deviation from a healthy or normal condition |
| PAT | a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) |
| PAT | a style that has the power to evoke feelings |
| PAT | a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others |
| PAT | a trodden path |
| PAT | a bundle of nerve fibers following a path through the brain |
| PAT | a card game played by one person |
| PAT | good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence |
| PAT | the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause |