Telephone Triage

... give telephone advice -- in the role that physicians once served. A wide variety of similar systems have sprung up over the last decade. In 1990, the term ... exist -- in-house and national conferences. In house trainers employ a variety of training methodologies, since research demonstrates that individuals ...

Breath-holding spells

... there is often hypocapnea (low levels of carbon dioxide) and usually hypoxia (low levels of oxygen). The events are thought to occur due to a variety of factors, including the fact that the child is not breathing, there is increased intrathoracic pressure secondary to the Valsalva maneuver, and ...

Beers Criteria

... that are generally considered inappropriate when given to elderly people because these medications may pose more risk than benefit. For a wide variety of individual reasons, the medications listed tend to cause side effects in the elderly due to the physiologic changes of aging . The criteria ...

Health Services Research

... , nurses , managers , and other people who make decisions or deliver care in the health care system . Health services researchers come from a variety of backgrounds including economics , political science , epidemiology , public health , medicine , biostatistics , operations , and ...

Pathology

... to cells and tissues , as well as the body's means of responding to and repairing injury. Disease processes may be incited or exacerbated by a variety of external and internal influences, including trauma , infection , poisoning , loss of blood flow , autoimmunity , inherited or acquired ...

Medicine

... care have risen, and a third party (an insurance company or government agency) now often insists upon a share of decision-making power for a variety of reasons, reducing freedom of choice of healthcare providers and patients in many ways. The quality of the patient - physician relationship is ...

Muscle atrophy

... Muscle atrophy refers to a decrease in the size of skeletal muscle, which occurs in a variety of settings. Atrophy may or may not be distinct from " sarcopenia ", which is the loss of muscle seen in the aged. When a muscle atrophies, it ...

Proteopathy

... referred to this category, e.g. critical illness myopathies or tumor cachexia. [2] The proteopathies comprise at least 30 diseases that affect a variety of organs and tissues, including Alzheimer's disease , Parkinson's disease , type 2 diabetes , amyloidosis , and a wide range of other disorders ...

Unsolved problems in medicine

... model a normative body (and brain) such that an accurate, predictable simulation can be run in real-time, providing measurable results with a variety of experimental inputs? Chronic Urticaria . What is the cause of such a disease? Can it be pinpointed as an autoimmunity or is it frankly ...