- Отрасли: Government; Health care
- Number of terms: 396
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
HRSA is the primary U.S. Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable.
In the improvement process, the person(s) who goes outside the organization to find new ideas. This person may not be well connected to others in the social system. (Rogers E. Diffusion of Innovations. 4th ed. New York, N.Y.: The Free Press; 1995. Note: Importance of change agents; agenda setting in organizations)
Industry:Health care
In the OPTN lung allocation system, every lung transplant candidate age 12 and older receives a lung allocation score, which, combined with blood type, and the geographic distance between the candidates and the hospital where the lung donor is located, is used to determine priority for receiving a lung transplant when a donor lung becomes available. Lungs from pediatric and adolescent donors are offered first to pediatric and adolescent transplant candidates before they are offered to adults. The following medical information is used to calculate a lung allocation score from 0 to 100 for each transplant candidate:
* Forced Vital Capacity
* Pulmonary Artery Pressure
* Oxygen at rest
* Age
* Body Mass Index
* Diabetes
* NYHA Functional Classification
* 6-minute walk distance
* Assisted ventilation
* Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure
* Serum Creatinine
* Disease Diagnosis.
Industry:Health care
In transplantation, a mismatch indicates the donor has at least one HLA-A, HLA-B, or HLA-DR antigen that is not present in the recipient.
Industry:Health care
Infection that usualy occurs in patients during treatment with steroids or immunosuppressants. Examples of fungi include candidas, aspergillus and histoplasmosis, which tend to affect the whole body and are not localized infections.
Industry:Health care
Inflammation and/or infection of the kidney and the renal pelvis (part of the system that conveys urine from the kidney to the bladder).
Industry:Health care
Irregularly shaped gland that lies behind the stomach and secretes pancreatic enzymes into the small intestines to aid in the digestion of proteins, carbohydrates and fats. Islet cells within the pancreas secrete glucagon, which regulates blood sugar levels and insulin, which lowers blood sugar levels. If the pancreas fails, the individual becomes diabetic, and may need to take insulin. The pancreas can be donated and transplanted.
Industry:Health care
Irreversible cessation of cerebral and brain stem function; characterized by absence of electrical activity in the brain, blood flow to the brain, and brain function as determined by clinical assessment of responses. A brain dead person is dead, although his or her cardiopulmonary functioning may be artificially maintained for some time.
Industry:Health care
Irreversible liver failure that requires transplantation as hepatic replacement therapy.
Industry:Health care
Legislation that allows donor designation to be indicated on a driver's license or an official signed donor document, which gives hospitals legal authority to proceed with organ procurement without consent from the family.
Industry:Health care
Medical Ethics is the discipline of evaluating the merits, risks, and social concerns of activities in the field of medicine. Principles include:
* A practitioner should act in the best interest of the patient (Salus aegroti suprema lex)
* "First, do no harm" (primum non nocere), from the Hippocratic Oath
* Autonomy is a patient's right to choose or refuse treatment (Voluntas aegroti suprema lex)
* Justice - concerns the distribution of scarce health resources, and the decision of who gets what treatment
* Dignity - the patient (and the person treating the patient) have the right to dignity
* Truthfulness - patients should not be lied to, and deserves to know the whole truth about their illness and treatment.
Industry:Health care
