PR has many different meanings related to medicine. Here are some: Per rectum. (This means that something is inserted into the body through the... Learn more about this topic: Accuracy & Abbreviations in Medical Terminology from Chapter 1/ Lesson 7 ...
What Does PR Stand For In Medical Terms? In medical terms, PR stands for pulse rate, the number of heartbeats per minute. It is also used for proteins found in the cells of tissues that the hormone progesterone binds to the receptors inside the cells. So, for example, it is linked to ...
In order to estimate the contribution of AI to HIV and STI incidence among FSW and transmission to their sexual partners, it is first necessary to accurately described AI practice in this group. To estimate this contribution, we need data on the proportion of FSW who practise AI and at what...
While a biopsychosocial approach is advised to manage migraine and tension-type headache, its use in clinical practice is not reflected by the literature. A biopsychosocial approach is not advised in cervicogenic headache. Psychosocial-lifestyle interventions are mainly delivered by health-care providers ...
Medical textbooks have always taught—and clinical practice correspondingly operates on the supposition—that type 2 diabetes can only “inexorably progress.” The belief is that once a patient with diabetes requires pharmacointervention, the disease is intractable. This long-entrenched dogma is omnipresen...
Translate this sentence in non-medical terms: "A slightly jaundiced patient has erythematous papules in the pectoral region and the left axillary area." What test is used to screen for cervical cancer? How is a diagnosis of benign versus maligna...
Australian preventive health strategy outlines the importance of preconception health in improving health in the community, across multiple generations and places primary and community healthcare services as a central pillar to effective preconception care. However, there is no national implementation plan ...
“Withtwo male partners over 60 years old - one fucking me whilst I fuck the other”). Physical attributes were also referred to in a more holistic sense by using terminology common-place within gay communities to describe sub-types of gay men, such as ‘bears’ (hirsute men who are ...
from Chapter 1 / Lesson 1 13K As a specialty, nursing informatics combines patient care with the integration of information technology. Gain a better understanding of the emergence of nursing informatics in healthcare, its elements, and current trends. Relat...
In brief, I hold that autonomy in medical settings mainly concerns decision-making, in the sense that bioethicists are interested in whether patients make autonomous healthcare deci- sions. Therefore, I phrase concerns of authenticity in terms of the authenticity of decisions, or more precisely ...