• Patient is a subsidiary of EMIS Health. First launching in 1996 as a directory of UK websites providing health related information, the company now provides...
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  • A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by healthcare professionals. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need...
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    "Ankylosing Spondylitis -Professional reference for Doctors – Patient UK". Patient UK. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 26 May 2014...
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  • patients with severe brain damage are in a state of partial arousal rather than true awareness. After four weeks in a vegetative state, the patient is...
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  • The doctor–patient relationship is a central part of health care and the practice of medicine. A doctor–patient relationship is formed when a doctor attends...
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    1016/j.jaad.2008.06.023. PMID 18793940. Anon. "Vitiligo -Treatment". Patient UK. NHS. Archived from the original on 6 June 2013. Retrieved 3 June 2013...
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    PMR, and treatment duration is frequently greater than one year. If the patient does not experience dramatic improvement after three days of 10–20 mg oral...
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  • Index case (redirect from Patient 0)
    index case or patient zero is the first documented patient in a disease epidemic within a population, or the first documented patient included in an...
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    oversimplification. Patients with "attenuated" or "mild" forms of the disease may still have significant health issues. For severely affected patients, the clinical...
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    Clinical Dermatology (10th ed.). Saunders. ISBN 0-7216-2921-0. "Pompholyx". Patient. 2014-02-26. Archived from the original on 3 August 2016. Retrieved 11...
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    Elsevier Saunders. MedlinePlus Encyclopedia: Intestinal Obstruction Patient UK: Intestinal Obstruction and Ileus PubMed Health: Intestinal obstruction...
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    (2023-03-01). "Adrenal Crisis as An Adverse Reaction to Zoledronic Acid in a Patient With Primary Adrenal Insufficiency: A Case Report and Literature Review"...
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  • goes even higher. If the patient only has leukocyte esterase or bacteria in the urine, then dysuria may suggest that the patient probably has urethritis...
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    may include careful identification of the cause with the aid of a good patient history, swabs and cultures, and pathological examination of a biopsy....
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    causes "spurious" cyanosis, in that, since methemoglobin appears blue, the patient can appear cyanosed even in the presence of a normal arterial oxygen level...
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    Depending on the cause, it may sometimes present along with jaundice. The patient may experience many symptoms, including weight loss, poor appetite, and...
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    1093/pch/6.3.129. PMC 2804525. PMID 20084222. "Magnesium & Liquid Paraffin". Patient UK. Archived from the original on 2009-04-14. "Section 172.878, White mineral...
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    (link) "Polyuria. Medical Professional reference for Polyuria. | Patient". Patient. Retrieved 2015-11-08. Merseburger, Axel S.; Kuczyk, Markus A.; Moul...
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    2015-07-02. Goebel, Joel A. (2008). Practical management of the dizzy patient (2nd ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 97. ISBN 9780781765626...
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    score of ≤ 8 on the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) lasting ≥ 6 hours. For a patient to maintain consciousness, the components of wakefulness and awareness...
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  • involvement (or public and patient involvement, PPI) in medical research refers to the practice where people with health conditions (patients), carers and members...
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    into the tunica vaginalis. It is usually painless and by the time the patient seeks help, it may be difficult to be sure that the swelling is not due...
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    as cyclic, cramping pain in the midline of the pelvis or lower abdomen. Patients may also report urinary frequency and urinary retention. Premenopausal...
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    Simel, D. L., Wisner, D. H., & Holmes, J. F. (2012). Does this adult patient have a blunt intra-abdominal injury?. JAMA, 307(14), 1517–1527. https://doi...
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    confusion when met with diagnosing a patient. Due to complex and contradicting symptoms presented by the patient the show's doctors ultimately give the...
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    Some patients may benefit from systemic narrow-spectrum penicillinase-resistant penicillins (such as dicloxacillin in the US or flucloxacillin in UK). Fungal...
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    narrowing/decreasing of pulse pressure. A pulse pressure of over 70 mmHg in patients with sepsis is correlated with an increased chance of survival. A widened...
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  • Patient rights consist of enforceable duties that healthcare professionals and healthcare business persons owe to patients to provide them with certain...
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  • closely related to patient participation. In the UK over the course of 2016 two new relevant terms have expanded in usage: Patient and Public Involvement...
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    obstruction due to bezoars, and small intestine bacterial overgrowth. Patient nutritional state should be managed by oral dietary modification, or if...
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