A word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or other words in a language; a word or an expression that serves as a figurative or symbolic substitute for another. (NCI Thesaurus)YOU MAY ALSO LIKESyngeneic stem cell transplantation A procedure in which a patient receives...
Moen2†, Maria Skeppstedt1†, Vidas Daudaravicˇius3 and Martin Duneld1 Abstract Background: Terminologies that account for variation in language use by linking synonyms and abbreviations to their corresponding concept are important enablers of high-quality information extraction from medical texts...
framework for the assessment of psychosocial factors affecting individual vulnerability, course, and outcome of any type of disease; holistic consideration of patient care in clinical practice; and integration of psychological therapies in the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of medical disease. Ps...
an overbearing parent or a spouse who does not speak English. Give the "patient" a medical condition and help him develop a challenging situation for the “nurse” to handle. It might also be necessary to assign specific tasks to the other characters as well. However, the nurse should remai...
2005 Wiley Periodi-cals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 61: 791–803, 2005.Keywords: placebo; placebo effect; psychotherapy; expectancy; conditioningA placebo is a sham treatment that may be used clinically to placate a patient or experi-mentally to establish the efficacy of a drug or other medical pro...
its School of Allied Medicine and Nursing. The program takes only six weeks and teaches students about biochemistry, renal anatomy and physiology, patient assessment and treatment, infectious disease control and nutrition. The program offers night and weekend classes for students who work during the ...
The first release of LOINC in May 1995 contained only terms for laboratory testing, and LOINC has grown significantly in other fields, including radiology, standard- ized survey instruments and patient-reported outcome measures, clinical documents, nursing management data, 1Faculty of Health Sciences,...
In nursing, having clearly defined objectives is essential to proper patient care and medical teamwork. In addition to discussing these practices, it is important to write down the objectives, as they then form a permanent record and can be used to evaluate how well a nurse is doing in her ...
For Consumers: (a) Realtime medical consultations and decision-support wherever the person is located; and (b) Management of one's own health care needs and their health care decision making. For Providers: (a) Providing access to more accurate and complete real-time patient data; (b) Using...
For example, rather than asking a natural language question of “What diagnosis applies to patient P?”, the cognitive system may instead receive a request of “generate diagnosis for patient P,” or the like. It should be appreciated that the mechanisms of the QA system pipeline may operate...