Health care terms Flashcards
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Sign
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Objectively- clear, undisputible and obvious
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Assessment
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Gathering data about a patient
2
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Symptom
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Subjective
3
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Acute
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Sudden onset and short duration
Responds actively to treatment
4
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Chronic
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Symptoms that continue to identify an need long term treatment
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Diagnosis
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Identification, recognition of disease and disorder
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prognosis
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Prediction or forecast of disease, injury and treatment
What it means for the patient
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Therapy
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Consistant treatment- management and care
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Direct
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Transmitted by physical contact from an infectious person to others
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indirect
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No direct human to human contact Ex: surfaces, mosquitoes, dogs and air
