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A condition characterized by muscle pains, and in some patients joint pains, skin thickening, hair loss, or intestinal disease, accompanied by an abnormally elevated level of eosinophil cells in the blood.
Industry:Health care
A state of apprehension, uncertainty, and fear resulting from the anticipation of a realistic or fantasized threatening event or situation that often impairs physical and psychological functioning.
Industry:Health care
A landmark prospective cohort study of risk factors for cardiovascular disease initiated in 1950 among residents of Framingham, Massachusetts.
Industry:Health care
* The conflict that results from two different resolutions to a situation, both of which are ethical.
* Result of a clinical situation that involves two individuals with different values, different levels of knowledge, expectations, and desires.
* Used synonymously with ethical problem and ethical issue.
Industry:Health care
* A state of responsiveness to others which entails the willingness to become personally involved
* The commitment to alleviate another person's vulnerability and suffering
* Considered to be the cornerstone of the therapeutic relationship and a principle component of the philosophy of pharmaceutical care practice
* Consists of three activities that the practitioner must accomplish: (1) assess the patient's needs, (2) obtain the resources required to meet these needs, (3) determine if the help provided has produced positive or negative outcomes.
Industry:Health care
A deficit in the delivery of oxygenated blood to the brain that may occur because of a blood clot or a hemorrhage; a synonym for a stroke.
Industry:Health care
A method to select variables in multiple regression that enters all variables into the regression equation and then eliminates the variable that adds the least to the prediction, followed by the other variables one at a time that decrease the multiple R by the least amount until all statistically significant variables are removed from the equation.
Industry:Health care
A scale used to measure a numerical characteristic that has integer values (an example is number of pregnancies).
Industry:Health care
A population or community of microorganisms adhering to a surface by a secreted coating. This coating also reduces microorganism vulnerability to antibiotics.
Industry:Health care
A purulent collection of fluid separated from surrounding tissue by a wall comprised of inflammatory cells and adjacent organs. It usually contains necrotic debris, bacteria, and inflammatory cells.
Industry:Health care
