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Learn about basic medical terms. Discover what a medical diagnosis is with examples, and examine the differences between acute and chronic medical terms. Updated: 11/21/2023 Table of Contents Basic Medical Terms Diagnosis Definition Acute Vs. Chronic: Medical Definition Lesson Summary Frequently ...
In stage 2, a panel (n=8) established clinical characteristics that may be associated with each definition. In stage 3, a focus group (n=11) created clinical case scenarios of neonates and infants with acute episodic pain, chronic pain and no pain using the definitions and clinical ...
In theacutesetting, such as for athletes who are injured on the playing field, the individual is evaluated initially for consciousness. A person who is unconscious following a blow to the head or a concussive force elsewhere to the body generally is assumed to have a cervical spine injury and...
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In the absence of a widely accepted definition of chronic illness, we used a characterization from an existing case-mix system.13 However, there are likely to be conditions that may be chronic that were grouped into ADGs that were not defined as chronic in this study; these particularly ...
This definition is based on positive and negative criteria. The main positive criteria are: prior diagnosis of chronic liver disease (cirrhotic or non-cirrhotic, exclud ing isolated steatosis); a precipitating event that has a direct effect on the liver; and acute hepatic insult that ...
To implement service line 2.0, health systems must be able to identify patients likely to have high lifetime care needs before they require acute care. In particular, systems should seek to identify and engage with those chronic disease patients likely to require l...
2. Bellomo R, Ronco C, Kellum JA, et al. Acute renal failure—definition, outcome measures, animal models, fluid therapy and information technology needs: the Second International Consensus Conference of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) Group.Crit Care2004;8:R204-R212. ...
In these regressions, the dependent variables were indicator variables set at 1 if the patient met the definition for chronic opioid use in the first postsurgical year and 0 otherwise. For this analysis, our independent variables corresponded to putative risk factors: age (modeled as an indicator ...