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--- patient satisfaction --- treatment refusal --- delivery of health care, integrated --- provider-sponsored organizations --- dentist's practice patterns --- health care costs --- direct service costs --- drug costs --- employer health costs --- hospital costs --- health care reform
--- health expenditures --- health priorities --- health resources --- health manpower --- health services accessibility --- health care rationing
--- health facility closure --- health facility environment --- health facility size --- marketing of health services --- social marketing
--- health services needs and demand --- medically underserved area --- needs assessment --- physician's practice patterns --- professional-patient relations --- dentist-patient relations --- nurse-patient relations --- physician-patient relations --- uncompensated care
--- ethics
--- bioethics
--- ethics, clinical --- conflict of interest
--- physician self-referral
--- ethical review --- ethics consultation --- ethicists --- ethics committees --- ethics committees, clinical --- ethics committees, research --- ethics, institutional --- ethics, professional --- codes of ethics --- helsinki declaration --- hippocratic oath
--- ethics, clinical --- ethics, dental --- ethics, medical --- hippocratic oath
--- ethics, nursing --- ethics, pharmacy --- ethics, research
--- health services research
--- health care surveys
--- quality assurance
--- benchmarking
--- credentialing
--- accreditation
--- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations --- certification
--- specialty boards --- licensure
--- licensure, dental --- licensure, hospital --- licensure, medical --- licensure, nursing --- licensure, pharmacy --- dental audit --- facility regulation and control --- guidelines --- codes of ethics --- practice guidelines --- medical audit --- Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities --- nursing audit --- professional review organizations --- professional staff committees --- clinical trials data monitoring committees --- ethics committees --- ethics committees, clinical --- ethics committees, research --- pharmacy and therapeutics committee --- total quality management
--- utilization review --- concurrent review --- drug utilization review
--- maternal age --- bias (epidemiology) --- observer variation --- selection bias
--- causality
--- precipitating factors --- risk factors
--- comorbidity
--- confounding factors (epidemiology) --- effect modifiers (epidemiology) --- cohort effect
--- healthy worker effect --- placebo effect
--- reproductive history --- sex factors --- health care evaluation mechanisms --- data collection
--- geriatric assessment --- health surveys --- behavioral risk factor surveillance system
--- dental health surveys --- dental plaque index --- dmf index --- oral hygiene index --- periodontal index --- health status indicators --- sickness impact profile --- mass screening --- anonymous testing --- genetic screening --- mass chest x-ray --- multiphasic screening --- neonatal screening --- vision screening --- nutrition surveys --- diet surveys --- population surveillance --- sentinel surveillance --- health care surveys --- interviews
--- focus groups --- narration --- nutrition assessment --- nutrition surveys --- diet surveys --- questionnaires --- records --- birth certificates --- consent forms --- death certificates --- dental records
--- hospital records
--- medical records --- medical record linkage --- medical records, problem-oriented --- medical records systems, computerized --- trauma severity indices --- abbreviated injury scale
--- glasgow coma scale
--- glasgow outcome scale --- injury severity score
--- nursing records --- registries --- seer program --- advance directive adherence --- evaluation studies --- guideline adherence --- organizational case studies --- outcome and process assessment (health care) --- outcome assessment (health care) --- treatment outcome --- treatment failure --- process assessment (health care) --- patient satisfaction --- program evaluation
--- benchmarking
--- statistics
--- actuarial analysis --- analysis of variance
--- multivariate analysis
--- cluster analysis --- small-area analysis --- space-time clustering --- confidence intervals --- data interpretation, statistical --- discriminant analysis --- factor analysis, statistical --- matched-pair analysis --- models, statistical --- likelihood functions --- linear models --- logistic models --- models, economic --- models, econometric --- nomograms --- proportional hazards models
--- monte carlo method
--- probability
--- bayes theorem --- likelihood functions --- markov chains --- odds ratio
--- proportional hazards models
--- risk
--- logistic models --- risk assessment
--- risk adjustment --- risk factors
--- uncertainty
--- regression analysis
--- least-squares analysis --- linear models --- logistic models --- proportional hazards models
--- sensitivity and specificity
--- statistical distributions --- binomial distribution --- chi-square distribution --- normal distribution --- poisson distribution
--- statistics, nonparametric --- stochastic processes --- markov chains --- survival analysis
--- disease-free survival --- epidemiologic study characteristics --- epidemiologic studies --- case-control studies --- retrospective studies --- cohort studies --- follow-up studies --- longitudinal studies --- prospective studies --- cross-sectional studies --- seroepidemiologic studies --- hiv seroprevalence --- clinical protocols --- antineoplastic protocols --- clinical trials --- clinical trials, phase i --- clinical trials, phase ii --- clinical trials, phase iii --- clinical trials, phase iv --- controlled clinical trials
--- randomized controlled trials --- multicenter studies --- feasibility studies --- intervention studies --- pilot projects --- sampling studies --- twin studies --- epidemiologic research design --- cross-over studies --- double-blind method --- matched-pair analysis --- meta-analysis
--- random allocation --- reproducibility of results --- sample size
--- sensitivity and specificity
--- predictive value of tests
--- roc curve --- single-blind method --- technology assessment, biomedical --- peer review, health care
Mesh
Mesh consists of semi-permeable barrier made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material. Mesh is similar to web or net in that it has many attached or woven strands.-Types of mesh:...
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--- health care quality, access, and evaluation
--- delivery of health care
--- after-hours care --- answering services --- attitude of health personnel --- nurse's role --- refusal to treat --- attitude to death --- attitude to health --- health services misuse --- unnecessary procedures --- health knowledge, attitudes, practice --- patient acceptance of health care --- patient compliance --- patient participationPatient participation
Patient participation, also called shared decision making, is "patient involvement in the decision-making process in matters pertaining to health"....
--- patient satisfaction --- treatment refusal --- delivery of health care, integrated --- provider-sponsored organizations --- dentist's practice patterns --- health care costs --- direct service costs --- drug costs --- employer health costs --- hospital costs --- health care reform
Health care reform
Health care reform is a general rubric used for discussing major health policy creation or changes—for the most part, governmental policy that affects health care delivery in a given place...
--- health expenditures --- health priorities --- health resources --- health manpower --- health services accessibility --- health care rationing
Health care rationing
Health care rationing refers to governmental mechanisms that are used to allocate health care when resources are scarce. Countries differ upon the mechanisms they use to ration the distribution of health care...
--- health facility closure --- health facility environment --- health facility size --- marketing of health services --- social marketing
Social marketing
Social marketing is the systematic application of marketing, along with other concepts and techniques, to achieve specific behavioral goals for a social good. Social marketing can be applied to promote merit goods, or to make a society avoid demerit goods and thus to promote society's well being as...
--- health services needs and demand --- medically underserved area --- needs assessment --- physician's practice patterns --- professional-patient relations --- dentist-patient relations --- nurse-patient relations --- physician-patient relations --- uncompensated care
--- ethicsEthicsEthics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality—that is, concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime, etc.Major branches of ethics include:...
--- bioethicsBioethics
Bioethics is the study of controversial ethics brought about by advances in biology and medicine. Bioethicists are concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, and philosophy....
--- ethics, clinical --- conflict of interest
Conflict of interest
A conflict of interest occurs when an individual or organization is involved in multiple interests, one of which could possibly corrupt the motivation for an act in the other....
--- physician self-referral
Physician self-referral
Physician self-referral is a term describing the practice of a physician ordering tests on a patient and having them performed either by themselves or by a facility from which they receive a financial incentive for the referral....
--- ethical review --- ethics consultation --- ethicists --- ethics committees --- ethics committees, clinical --- ethics committees, research --- ethics, institutional --- ethics, professional --- codes of ethics --- helsinki declaration --- hippocratic oath
Hippocratic Oath
The Hippocratic Oath is an oath historically taken by physicians and other healthcare professionals swearing to practice medicine ethically. It is widely believed to have been written by Hippocrates, often regarded as the father of western medicine, or by one of his students. The oath is written in...
--- ethics, clinical --- ethics, dental --- ethics, medical --- hippocratic oath
Hippocratic Oath
The Hippocratic Oath is an oath historically taken by physicians and other healthcare professionals swearing to practice medicine ethically. It is widely believed to have been written by Hippocrates, often regarded as the father of western medicine, or by one of his students. The oath is written in...
--- ethics, nursing --- ethics, pharmacy --- ethics, research
--- health services researchHealth services researchHealth services research is a multidisciplinary scientific field that examines how people get access to health care practitioners and health care services, how much care costs, and what happens to patients as a result of this care...
--- health care surveys --- quality assuranceQuality AssuranceQuality assurance, or QA for short, is the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service or facility to maximize the probability that minimum standards of quality are being attained by the production process...
, health careHealth careHealth care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers...
--- benchmarkingBenchmarking
Benchmarking is the process of comparing one's business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and/or best practices from other industries. Dimensions typically measured are quality, time and cost...
--- credentialing
Credentialing
Credentialing is the process of establishing the qualifications of licensed professionals, organizational members or organizations, and assessing their background and legitimacy...
--- accreditation
Accreditation
Accreditation is a process in which certification of competency, authority, or credibility is presented.Organizations that issue credentials or certify third parties against official standards are themselves formally accredited by accreditation bodies ; hence they are sometimes known as "accredited...
--- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations --- certification
Certification
Certification refers to the confirmation of certain characteristics of an object, person, or organization. This confirmation is often, but not always, provided by some form of external review, education, assessment, or audit...
--- specialty boards --- licensure
Licensure
Licensure refers to the granting of a license, which gives a "permission to practice." Such licenses are usually issued in order to regulate some activity that is deemed to be dangerous or a threat to the person or the public or which involves a high level of specialized skill...
--- licensure, dental --- licensure, hospital --- licensure, medical --- licensure, nursing --- licensure, pharmacy --- dental audit --- facility regulation and control --- guidelines --- codes of ethics --- practice guidelines --- medical audit --- Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities --- nursing audit --- professional review organizations --- professional staff committees --- clinical trials data monitoring committees --- ethics committees --- ethics committees, clinical --- ethics committees, research --- pharmacy and therapeutics committee --- total quality management
Total Quality Management
Total quality management or TQM is an integrative philosophy of management for continuously improving the quality of products and processes....
--- utilization review --- concurrent review --- drug utilization review
--- quality of health care
--- epidemiologic factors --- age factors --- age of onsetAge of onset
The age of onset is a medical term referring to the age at which an individual acquires, develops, or first experiences a condition or symptoms of a disease or disorder...
--- maternal age --- bias (epidemiology) --- observer variation --- selection bias
Selection bias
Selection bias is a statistical bias in which there is an error in choosing the individuals or groups to take part in a scientific study. It is sometimes referred to as the selection effect. The term "selection bias" most often refers to the distortion of a statistical analysis, resulting from the...
--- causality
Causality
Causality is the relationship between an event and a second event , where the second event is understood as a consequence of the first....
--- precipitating factors --- risk factors
Risk factors
A risk factor is a concept in finance theory such as the CAPM, APT and other theories that use pricing kernels. In these models, the rate of return of an asset is a random variable whose realization in any time period is a linear combination of other random variables plus a disturbance term or...
--- comorbidity
Comorbidity
In medicine, comorbidity is either the presence of one or more disorders in addition to a primary disease or disorder, or the effect of such additional disorders or diseases.- In medicine :...
--- confounding factors (epidemiology) --- effect modifiers (epidemiology) --- cohort effect
Cohort effect
The term cohort effect is used in social science to describe variations in the characteristics of an area of study over time among individuals who are defined by some shared temporal experience or common life experience, such as year of birth, or year of exposure to radiation.Cohort effects are...
--- healthy worker effect --- placebo effect
Placebo effect
Placebo effect may refer to:* Placebo effect, the tendency of any medication or treatment, even an inert or ineffective one, to exhibit results simply because the recipient believes that it will work...
--- reproductive history --- sex factors --- health care evaluation mechanisms --- data collection
Data collection
Data collection is a term used to describe a process of preparing and collecting data, for example, as part of a process improvement or similar project. The purpose of data collection is to obtain information to keep on record, to make decisions about important issues, to pass information on to...
--- geriatric assessment --- health surveys --- behavioral risk factor surveillance system
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System is a United States health survey that looks at behavioral risk factors. It is run by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and conducted by the individual state health departments. The survey is administered by telephone and is the world's...
--- dental health surveys --- dental plaque index --- dmf index --- oral hygiene index --- periodontal index --- health status indicators --- sickness impact profile --- mass screening --- anonymous testing --- genetic screening --- mass chest x-ray --- multiphasic screening --- neonatal screening --- vision screening --- nutrition surveys --- diet surveys --- population surveillance --- sentinel surveillance --- health care surveys --- interviews
Interviews
Interviews is:# the plural form of "interview"# a compilation album by Bob Marley & the Wailers, see Interviews # a C++ toolkit for the X Window System, see InterViews...
--- focus groups --- narration --- nutrition assessment --- nutrition surveys --- diet surveys --- questionnaires --- records --- birth certificates --- consent forms --- death certificates --- dental records
Dental Records
Dental Records is a small, independent record label, based in Ipswich, UK.-Releases:*DRCD0501 The Ballistics - Allow Me To Demonstrate*DRCD0601 Singled Out - Hardcore Seanography*DRCD0602 The Ballistics - The Spirit Of Kelso Cochrane...
--- hospital records
Hospital Records
Hospital Records is an independent record label based in South London. Primarily releasing Drum and bass, the label was started in 1996 by Tony Colman and Chris Goss, and has grown in recent years to become one of the most well known labels within UK dance music...
--- medical records --- medical record linkage --- medical records, problem-oriented --- medical records systems, computerized --- trauma severity indices --- abbreviated injury scale
Abbreviated Injury Scale
Abbreviated injury scale is an anatomical-based scoring system to determine the severity of single injuries based on the survivability of the injury. AIS is one of the most common anatomic scales for traumatic injuries...
--- glasgow coma scale
Glasgow Coma Scale
Glasgow Coma Scale or GCS is a neurological scale that aims to give a reliable, objective way of recording the conscious state of a person for initial as well as subsequent assessment...
--- glasgow outcome scale --- injury severity score
Injury Severity Score
The Injury Severity Score is an established medical score to assess trauma severity. It correlates with mortality, morbidity and hospitalization time after trauma...
--- nursing records --- registries --- seer program --- advance directive adherence --- evaluation studies --- guideline adherence --- organizational case studies --- outcome and process assessment (health care) --- outcome assessment (health care) --- treatment outcome --- treatment failure --- process assessment (health care) --- patient satisfaction --- program evaluation
Program evaluation
Project evaluation is a systematic method for collecting, analyzing, and using information to answer questions about projects, policies and programs, particularly about their effectiveness and efficiency...
--- benchmarking
Benchmarking
Benchmarking is the process of comparing one's business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and/or best practices from other industries. Dimensions typically measured are quality, time and cost...
--- statistics
Statistics
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
--- actuarial analysis --- analysis of variance
Analysis of variance
In statistics, analysis of variance is a collection of statistical models, and their associated procedures, in which the observed variance in a particular variable is partitioned into components attributable to different sources of variation...
--- multivariate analysis
Multivariate analysis
Multivariate analysis is based on the statistical principle of multivariate statistics, which involves observation and analysis of more than one statistical variable at a time...
--- cluster analysis --- small-area analysis --- space-time clustering --- confidence intervals --- data interpretation, statistical --- discriminant analysis --- factor analysis, statistical --- matched-pair analysis --- models, statistical --- likelihood functions --- linear models --- logistic models --- models, economic --- models, econometric --- nomograms --- proportional hazards models
Proportional hazards models
Proportional hazards models are a class of survival models in statistics. Survival models relate the time that passes before some event occurs to one or more covariates that may be associated with that quantity. In a proportional hazards model, the unique effect of a unit increase in a covariate...
--- monte carlo method
Monte Carlo method
Monte Carlo methods are a class of computational algorithms that rely on repeated random sampling to compute their results. Monte Carlo methods are often used in computer simulations of physical and mathematical systems...
--- probability
Probability
Probability is ordinarily used to describe an attitude of mind towards some proposition of whose truth we arenot certain. The proposition of interest is usually of the form "Will a specific event occur?" The attitude of mind is of the form "How certain are we that the event will occur?" The...
--- bayes theorem --- likelihood functions --- markov chains --- odds ratio
Odds ratio
The odds ratio is a measure of effect size, describing the strength of association or non-independence between two binary data values. It is used as a descriptive statistic, and plays an important role in logistic regression...
--- proportional hazards models
Proportional hazards models
Proportional hazards models are a class of survival models in statistics. Survival models relate the time that passes before some event occurs to one or more covariates that may be associated with that quantity. In a proportional hazards model, the unique effect of a unit increase in a covariate...
--- risk
Risk
Risk is the potential that a chosen action or activity will lead to a loss . The notion implies that a choice having an influence on the outcome exists . Potential losses themselves may also be called "risks"...
--- logistic models --- risk assessment
Risk assessment
Risk assessment is a step in a risk management procedure. Risk assessment is the determination of quantitative or qualitative value of risk related to a concrete situation and a recognized threat...
--- risk adjustment --- risk factors
Risk factors
A risk factor is a concept in finance theory such as the CAPM, APT and other theories that use pricing kernels. In these models, the rate of return of an asset is a random variable whose realization in any time period is a linear combination of other random variables plus a disturbance term or...
--- uncertainty
Uncertainty
Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of fields, including physics, philosophy, statistics, economics, finance, insurance, psychology, sociology, engineering, and information science...
--- regression analysis
Regression analysis
In statistics, regression analysis includes many techniques for modeling and analyzing several variables, when the focus is on the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables...
--- least-squares analysis --- linear models --- logistic models --- proportional hazards models
Proportional hazards models
Proportional hazards models are a class of survival models in statistics. Survival models relate the time that passes before some event occurs to one or more covariates that may be associated with that quantity. In a proportional hazards model, the unique effect of a unit increase in a covariate...
--- sensitivity and specificity
Sensitivity and specificity
Sensitivity and specificity are statistical measures of the performance of a binary classification test, also known in statistics as classification function. Sensitivity measures the proportion of actual positives which are correctly identified as such Sensitivity and specificity are statistical...
--- statistical distributions --- binomial distribution --- chi-square distribution --- normal distribution --- poisson distribution
Poisson distribution
In probability theory and statistics, the Poisson distribution is a discrete probability distribution that expresses the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time and/or space if these events occur with a known average rate and independently of the time since...
--- statistics, nonparametric --- stochastic processes --- markov chains --- survival analysis
Survival analysis
Survival analysis is a branch of statistics which deals with death in biological organisms and failure in mechanical systems. This topic is called reliability theory or reliability analysis in engineering, and duration analysis or duration modeling in economics or sociology...
--- disease-free survival --- epidemiologic study characteristics --- epidemiologic studies --- case-control studies --- retrospective studies --- cohort studies --- follow-up studies --- longitudinal studies --- prospective studies --- cross-sectional studies --- seroepidemiologic studies --- hiv seroprevalence --- clinical protocols --- antineoplastic protocols --- clinical trials --- clinical trials, phase i --- clinical trials, phase ii --- clinical trials, phase iii --- clinical trials, phase iv --- controlled clinical trials
Clinical trial
Clinical trials are a set of procedures in medical research and drug development that are conducted to allow safety and efficacy data to be collected for health interventions...
--- randomized controlled trials --- multicenter studies --- feasibility studies --- intervention studies --- pilot projects --- sampling studies --- twin studies --- epidemiologic research design --- cross-over studies --- double-blind method --- matched-pair analysis --- meta-analysis
Meta-analysis
In statistics, a meta-analysis combines the results of several studies that address a set of related research hypotheses. In its simplest form, this is normally by identification of a common measure of effect size, for which a weighted average might be the output of a meta-analyses. Here the...
--- random allocation --- reproducibility of results --- sample size
Sample size
Sample size determination is the act of choosing the number of observations to include in a statistical sample. The sample size is an important feature of any empirical study in which the goal is to make inferences about a population from a sample...
--- sensitivity and specificity
Sensitivity and specificity
Sensitivity and specificity are statistical measures of the performance of a binary classification test, also known in statistics as classification function. Sensitivity measures the proportion of actual positives which are correctly identified as such Sensitivity and specificity are statistical...
--- predictive value of tests
Predictive value of tests
Predictive value of tests is the probability of a target condition given by the result of a test, often in regard to medical tests....
--- roc curve --- single-blind method --- technology assessment, biomedical --- peer review, health care