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Patient Education as Topic
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D010353 |
[The teaching or training of patients concerning their own health needs.
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Patient Escort Service
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D010354 |
[A special service provided by volunteers to accompany patients who need help in moving about the health facility.
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Patient Freedom of Choice Laws
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D020403 |
[Laws requiring patients under managed care programs to receive services from the physician or other provider of their choice. Any willing provider laws take many different forms, but they typically prohibit managed-care organizations from having a closed panel of physicians, hospitals, or other providers.
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Patient Generated Health Data
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D000076206 |
[Health-related data created, recorded, or gathered by patients, family members, or caregivers, to help address a health concern. Distinct from data generated in clinical settings and through encounters with providers.
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Patient Handoff
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D062209 |
[Patient transfer within nursing staff of one facility.
, Transfers within a facility between clinical locations (eg, ICU to the step-down unit) and disciplines (eg, cardiology to cardiac surgery) in addition to within a discipline (eg, cross-coverage by residents, nurses, or attending physicians).
, The transferring of patient care responsibility from one health-care professional to another.
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Patient Harm
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D064406 |
[A measure of PATIENT SAFETY considering errors or mistakes which result in harm to the patient. They include errors in the administration of drugs and other medications (MEDICATION ERRORS), errors in the performance of procedures or the use of other types of therapy, in the use of equipment, and in the interpretation of laboratory findings and preventable accidents involving patients.
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Patient Health Questionnaire
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D000073222 |
[A self-administered version of the Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders (PRIME-MD), a diagnostic tool containing modules on multiple mental health disorders including anxiety, alcohol, eating, and somatoform modules. The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) is designed specifically for mood/depression scoring each of the 9 DSM-IV criteria based on the mood module from the original PRIME-MD. The Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) scores 7 common anxiety symptoms.
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Patient Identification Systems
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D010355 |
[Procedures and use of devices to maintain knowledge of PATIENTS locations inside and outside the healthcare facility.
, Organized procedures for establishing patient identity, including use of bracelets, etc.
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Patient Isolation
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D010356 |
[The segregation of patients with communicable or other diseases for a specified time. Isolation may be strict, in which movement and social contacts are limited; modified, where an effort to control specified aspects of care is made in order to prevent cross infection; or reverse, where the patient is secluded in a controlled or germ-free environment in order to protect him or her from cross infection.
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Patient Isolators
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D010357 |
[Equipment used to prevent contamination of and by patients, especially those with infections. This includes plastic surgical isolators and specially designed spaces used to protect patients.
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Patient Medication Knowledge
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D063046 |
[Patient health knowledge related to medications including what is being used and why as well as instructions and precautions.
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Patient Navigation
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D062526 |
[The process of helping patients to effectively and efficiently use the health care system when faced with one or more of these challenges: (1) choosing, understanding, and using health coverage or applying for assistance when uninsured; (2) choosing, using, and understanding different types of health providers and services; (3) making treatment decisions; and (4) managing care received by multiple providers.
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Patient Outcome Assessment
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D063868 |
[Patient-generated evaluation data of treatment outcome or interaction in healthcare environment.
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Patient Participation
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D010358 |
[Patient involvement in the decision-making process in matters pertaining to health.
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Patient Portals
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D000072638 |
[A secure online website that provides patients convenient 24-hour access to personal health information via an Internet connection.
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Patient Positioning
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D056888 |
[Moving a patient into a specific position or POSTURE to facilitate examination, surgery, or for therapeutic purposes.
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Patient Preference
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D057240 |
[Individual's expression of desirability or value of one course of action, outcome, or selection in contrast to others.
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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D058991 |
[An Act prohibiting a health plan from establishing lifetime limits or annual limits on the dollar value of benefits for any participant or beneficiary after January 1, 2014. It permits a restricted annual limit for plan years beginning prior to January 1, 2014. It provides that a health plan shall not be prevented from placing annual or lifetime per-beneficiary limits on covered benefits. The Act sets up a competitive health insurance market.
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Patient Readmission
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D010359 |
[Subsequent admissions of a patient to a hospital or other health care institution for treatment.
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Patient Reported Outcome Measures
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D000071066 |
[Assessment of the quality and effectiveness of health care as measured and directly reported by the patient.
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