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A condition marked by an abnormally low number of granulocytes in the blood, and which may predispose the host to infection.
Industry:Health care
A general term used to describe a form of treatment based on talking with a therapist. Psychotherapy aims to relieve distress by discussing and expressing feelings, to help the patient to change attitudes, behavior, and habits and to develop better ways of coping.
Industry:Health care
A condition in which the urine contains large amounts of protein (>150 mg/day); often a sign of glomerular or tubular damage in the kidney.
Industry:Health care
A disorder caused by an acute decrease of blood flow to the optic nerve, which results in sudden vision loss. If persistent, it can lead to permanent vision loss.
Industry:Health care
A nonparametric correlation that measures the tendency for two measurements to vary together.
Industry:Health care
A clinical laboratory test; PSA is a tumor marker that is used to screen for, monitor response to treatment of, and determine degree of spread of prostate cancer. Normally, PSA blood levels should be low as PSA is passed out of the body in the ejaculate.
Industry:Health care
A distribution that has the same shape on both sides of the mean. The mean, median, and mode are all equal. It is the opposite of a skewed distribution.
Industry:Health care
* A rational decision making process used in pharmaceutical care practice.
* The practitioner's clinical decisions involved in assessing a patient's drug-related needs, identifying drug therapy problems, establishing goals of therapy, selecting interventions, and evaluating outcomes.
* Description of the thought processes, hypotheses, established relationships, decisions, and resolved problems in providing pharmaceutical care.
Industry:Health care
* An approach in which an authority figure undertakes to regulate the conduct of those in his/her control in matters affecting them as individuals as well as in their relations to that authority and to each other.
* Characterized by practitioners making decisions with little regard to the patient's wishes.
* An authoritarian approach which is inconsistent with the practice of pharmaceutical care.
Industry:Health care
A complex sequence of pathophysiologic events precipitated by the initial or primary brain injury that disrupts the normal central nervous system balance between oxygen supply and demand resulting in a worsened patient outcome.
Industry:Health care
