Patient safety — is a new healthcare discipline that emphasizes the reporting, analysis, and prevention of medical error that often lead to adverse healthcare events. The frequency and magnitude of avoidable adverse patient events was not well known until the… … Wikipedia
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — Full title The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Acronym PPACA Colloquial name(s) Affordable Care Act, Healthcare Insurance Reform, Obamacare, Healthcare Reform Enacted by the … Wikipedia
Patient registration — is the concept and set of methods needed to corelate the reference position of a virtual 3D dataset gathered by computer medical imaging with the reference position of the patient. This procedure is crucial in computer assisted surgery, in order… … Wikipedia
Lead poisoning — Classification and external resources An X ray demonstrating the characteristic finding of lead poisoning, dense metaphyseal lines. ICD 10 T … Wikipedia
Lead time bias — Lead time is the length of time between the detection of a disease (usually based on new, experimental criteria) and its usual clinical presentation and diagnosis (based on traditional criteria).Lead time bias is the bias that occurs when two… … Wikipedia
Patient safety organization — A patient safety organization (PSO) is a group, institution or association that improves medical care by reducing medical errors. In the 1990s, reports in several countries revealed a staggering number of patient injuries and deaths each year due … Wikipedia
Patient safety and nursing — Nurses are knowledge workers whose main responsibility is to provide safe and effective care within constantly evolving health care systems. Nurses collaborate with one another, as well as doctors, aides and technicians, to provide holistic care… … Wikipedia
Patient and mortuary neglect — Neglect is defined as giving little attention to or to leave undone or unattended to, especially through carelessness. Mortuary neglect can comprise many things, such as bodies being stolen from the morgue, or bodies being mixed up and the wrong… … Wikipedia
Lead time bias — Beim lead time bias handelt es sich um einen Fehler (engl. bias, Verzerrung), der bei Studien zur Krebsfrüherkennung eine Rolle spielt. Er beschreibt eine nur scheinbar verlängerte Überlebenszeit bei Vorverlegung des Diagnosezeitpunkts verglichen … Deutsch Wikipedia
Online lead generation — is a marketing term that refers to the creation or generation of prospective consumer interest or inquiry into a business products or services online. Leads can be generated for a variety of purposes list building, e newsletter list acquisition,… … Wikipedia
Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement — The Consumer/Survivor/Ex Patient Movement, also known as the User/Survivor Movement, is a diverse association of individuals (and organizations representing them) who are either currently consumers (clients) of mental health services, or who… … Wikipedia