| HI | half-scan with interpolation; head injury; health insurance; hearing impaired; heart infusion; hemag... |
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| HIP | health illness profile; health insurance plan or program; homograft incus prosthesis; hospital insur... |
| HIPC | health insurance purchasing collective; health insurance purchasing cooperative |
| AJKD | American Journal of Kidney Diseases |
| JOC | Journal of Oncologic Clinical(?) |
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| risk patient | Patient who is at risk, because of his/her behaviour or because of the type of person he/she is. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| risk reduction | Techniques used to reduce your chances of getting a certain cancer. For example: reducing your dietary fat may help prevent breast cancer. (09 Oct 1997) |
| risk-taking | Undertaking a task involving a challenge for achievement or a desirable goal in which there is a lack of certainty or a fear of failure. It may also include the exhibiting of certain behaviours whose outcomes may present a risk to the individual or to those associated with him or her. (12 Dec 1998) |
| competing risk | An event that removes a subject from being at risk for an outcome under investigation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pregnancy, high-risk | Pregnancy in which the mother and/or foetus are at greater than normal risk of morbidity or mortality. Causes include lack of adequate prenatal care, previous obstetrical history, pre-existing maternal disease or pregnancy-induced disease, and multiple gestation, as well as advanced maternal age. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health risk assessment | Method of describing an individual's chance of falling ill or dying of a specified condition, based on actuarial calculations that allow for known exposure to risk; expressed as expected age at which death or disease will occur, and intended as a way of drawing an individual's attention to the probable consequences of risk behaviour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oesophageal carcinoma risk factors | <radiology> P Plummer-Vinson Web, A achalasia, alcohol, B Barrett oesophagus, S stricture, T tylosis, tobacco see: oesophageal carcinoma (12 Dec 1998) |
| thyroid carcinoma risk factors | <radiology> Increased risk of malignancy: young female, male, history of radiation to head or neck, hard lesion, other neck masses, no shrinkage on TSH, family hx of thyroid carcinoma see: thyroid carcinoma (12 Dec 1998) |
| empiric risk | The chance that a disease will occur in a family based upon experience (past history, medical records, etc.) rather than theory. (12 Dec 1998) |
| insurance | Coverage by contract whereby one part indemnifies or guarantees another against loss by a specified contingency. (12 Dec 1998) |
| insurance, accident | Insurance providing coverage for physical injury suffered as a result of unavoidable circumstances. (12 Dec 1998) |
| insurance benefits | Payments or services provided under stated circumstances under the terms of an insurance policy. In prepayment programs, benefits are the services the programs will provide at defined locations and to the extent needed. (12 Dec 1998) |
| insurance carriers | Organizations which assume the financial responsibility for the risks of policyholders. (12 Dec 1998) |
| insurance claim reporting | The design, completion, and filing of forms with the insurer. (12 Dec 1998) |
| insurance claim review | Review of claims by insurance companies to determine liability and amount of payment for various services. The review may also include determination of eligibility of the claimant or beneficiary or of the provider of the benefit; determination that the benefit is covered or not payable under another policy; or determination that the service was necessary and of reasonable cost and quality. (12 Dec 1998) |