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Number 12 Looks Just Like You — This article is about a TV episode. For the band, see The Number Twelve Looks Like You. Number 12 Looks Just Like You The Twilight Zone episode Marilyn after forcibly undergoing … Wikipedia
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 Abuse — is a sketch from the final episode of Monty Python s Flying Circus . The sketch is notable for being one of the few not written by a Monty Python member, and for its considerable amount of black humour. It was written by future Hitchhiker s Guide … 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-reported outcome — EPRO redirects here. For other uses, see EPRO (disambiguation). A patient reported outcome or PRO is a questionnaire used in a clinical trial or a clinical setting, where the responses are collected directly from the patient. PRO is an umbrella… … Wikipedia
Number needed to harm — The number needed to harm (NNH) is an epidemiological measure that indicates how many patients need to be exposed to a risk factor over a specific period to cause harm in one patient that would not otherwise have been harmed.[1] It is defined as… … Wikipedia
Number needed to treat — Die Anzahl der notwendigen Behandlungen (en. number needed to treat NNT) ist eine statistische Maßzahl, die angibt, wie viele Patienten pro Zeiteinheit (z. B. 1 Jahr) mit der Testsubstanz oder Testmethode behandelt werden müssen, um das… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Patient's Charter — The Patient s Charter is a United Kingdom government document, which sets out a number of rights for National Health Service patients. It was originally introduced in 1991, under the then Conservative government, and was revised in 1995 and… … Wikipedia
patient — One who is suffering from any disease or behavioral disorder and is under treatment for it. Cf.:case (1). [L. patiens, pres. p. of patior, to suffer] target p. in group therapy, the p. being analyzed in turn by another member p.. * * * pa·tient… … Medical dictionary
