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A clinical situation in which a patient has extremely high blood pressure values, typically greater than 180/120 mm Hg that is also accompanied by the presence of acute and/or progressing target-organ damage. Immediate but gradual reduction in blood pressure using intravenous antihypertensive agents is needed to prevent acute morbidity and/or mortality.
Industry:Health care
A flaw in measuring exposure or outcome data that results in systematic differences in the quality of information gathered for study and comparison groups. See also Selection bias.
Industry:Health care
A nonexperimental analytic study in which the investigator monitors, but does not influence, the exposure status of individual subjects and their subsequent disease status.
Industry:Health care
A disorder characterized by clinically significant anxiety provoked by exposure to certain types of social or performance situations, often leading to avoidance behavior.
Industry:Health care
A disease spectrum that includes hyperuricemia, recurrent attacks of acute arthritis associated with monosodium urate crystals in leukocytes found in synovial fluid, deposits of monosodium urate crystals in tissues (tophi), interstitial renal disease, and uric acid nephrolithiasis.
Industry:Health care
A group of computers connected in a way that they may share data, programs, and or equipment over a distance (e.g., connection between computers owned by an institution that are scattered in clinics around a city).
Industry:Health care
A hormone secreted by the adrenal medulla and also released at synapses.
Industry:Health care
* An individual who possesses a unique body of knowledge, skills, and values and uses this to meet the health care needs of a patient.
* Subscribes to a specific philosophy of practice and way of practicing (patient care process) that is consistent with other members of the profession.
* An individual who practices based upon specific standards of care and standards for professional behavior and holds him/herself as well as colleagues, to these standards.
* Used synonymously with clinician.
Industry:Health care
* One of the standard terms for describing the outcome status of a patient's medical condition being treated with pharmacotherapy.
* Goals of therapy have been achieved. Drug therapy has been completed or can now be discontinued. Usually associated with therapy for an acute disorder.
Industry:Health care
A coiled capillary bed in the kidney that is responsible for filtering water and small molecular weight substances from the blood.
Industry:Health care
