Category: P
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Patrilocal
A residential system in which the husband brings his wife to live with or near his parents.
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Patrilineal
A system of tracing descent in which only one of the four grandparents is the direct line of descent.
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Patriarchy
Control of the family or other groups by the male.
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Patient’s bill of rights
A list of 12 standard ethical principles that describe and define considerate and ethical treatment that should be provided in a hospital or nursing home. A statement adopted by the American Hospital Association (AHA) in 1973 giving some 12 “rights” to which it felt that hospital patients were entitled. These include the right of the…
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Patient package insert (PPI)
A leaflet included in a drug package that describes how to use the drug. It includes information about the drug’s purposes, hazards, and side effects, patient medication instructions.
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Patient medication instructions
Printed information dealing with drugs and their effects are made available to physicians for distribution to their patients, the goal being to enhance the drug’s effectiveness, patient package insert.
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Patient health educator
A person trained in the methods and techniques of health education as applied to persons who have suffered a disease or disability to educate them on ways of preventing complications or relapse.
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Patient health education
All of the methods, techniques, and strategies used by the patient health educator to favorably influence the health knowledge, attitudes, and, especially, the behavior of patients recovering from a disease, injury, surgery, or other health episode.
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Patient education
Patient health education. Health information and patient education Health information and instruction to help patients learn about specific or general medical topics, such as the need for preventive services, the adoption of healthy lifestyles, the correct use of medications, or the care of diseases or injuries at home.
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Patient advocate
An attorney, mental health professional, or other person who participates in consent procedures with and for the psychiatric patient. A person who helps patients with their complaints and problems with medical care and hospital and health care services and with the protection of their rights. The field is called “patient advocacy,” one area of health…