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U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration
Отрасли: Government; Health care
Number of terms: 396
Number of blossaries: 0
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HRSA is the primary U.S. Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable.
A spectrum of lymphoid tissue disease ranging from benign infections (mononucleosis) to highly malignant lymphomas.
Industry:Health care
A split liver transplant occurs when the donor liver is divided into segments and then transplanted. These segments may be transplanted into more than one recipient, or a segment could be transplanted into a child for whom an entire adult liver would be too large.
Industry:Health care
A standard measure of lung function which measures the volume of air one breathes out in one second after taking a deep breath. It is also a predictor of mortality in lung patients.
Industry:Health care
A subcommittee of the Kidney/Pancreas Allocation Committee, created in 2004 to conduct a comprehensive review of the national system for allocating deceased donor kidneys, including a series of public hearings with expert testimony and open discussion focused on specific aspects of the national kidney allocation system and opportunities for assessment and/or improvement.
Industry:Health care
A subdivision of an OPO's Donation Service Area (DSA), approved by the Board to function as a distinct area for organ distribution. See also Alternative Allocation or Distribution System, Regions.
Industry:Health care
A synthetic hormone used to reduce the body's normal immune reaction to infection and foreign tissue, such as a transplanted organ. Prednisone is a corticosteroid.
Industry:Health care
A system to augment alveolar ventilation by gaseous diffusion of oxygen into blood outside the patient's body.
Industry:Health care
A time-limited effort (usually 6 to 12 months) of multiple organizations that come together with faculty to learn about and to create improved processes in a specific topic area. The expectation is that the teams share expertise and data with each other, thus œeveryone learns, everyone teaches.
Industry:Health care
A tissue sample from the body, removed and examined under a microscope to diagnose for disease, determine organ rejection, or assess donated organs or tissues.
Industry:Health care
A traditional oath of physicians, who pledge to practice medicine according to the ideals and moral principles put forth by Hippocrates: to treat the ill to the best of one's ability, to preserve a patient's privacy, to teach the secrets of medicine to the next generation. Ethics, Justice, Statement of Principles and Objectives of Equitable Organ Allocation, Utility.
Industry:Health care