Category: Q

Obligatory on food labels in EU since February 2000; previously legislation only required declaration of ingredients in descending order of quantity, not specific declaration of the amount of each ingredient present.  

Quaker arm circumference measuring stick. A stick used to measure height which also shows the 80th and 85th centiles of expected mid-upper arm circumference. Developed by a Quaker Service Team in Nigeria in the 1960s as a rapid and simple tool for assessment of nutritional status.  

An atypical antipsychotic medication approved for the treatment of schizophrenia and for acute and maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder. Marketed under the brand name seroquel.  

A benzodiazepine sedative-hypnotic medication indicated for the treatment of insomnia. Marketed under the brand name doral.  

Activities and programs intended to ensure the standard of care in a defined medical setting or program. Such programs must include educational components intended to remedy identified deficiencies in quality, as well as the components necessary to identify such deficiencies (such as peer or utilization review components) and assess the program’s own effectiveness. A program…

A personality assessment technique in which the subject (or an observer) indicates the degree to which a standardized set of descriptive statements actually describes the subject. The term reflects the “sorting” procedures occasionally used with this technique. In psychology a personality test used in client-centered therapy or research, in which the person in question categorizes…

A term describing an acute, timelimited episode characterized by dissociative, paranoid, or other psychotic or nonpsychotic symptoms that may occur after participation in the Chinese folk health-enhancing practice of qi-gong (“exercise of vital energy”).  

A type of “brain mapping” test that analyzes the electrical activity of the brain to measure and display patterns for diagnostic information.  

A generic concept reflecting concern with the modification and enhancement of life attributes, e.g., physical, political, moral and social environment. The perception by individuals or groups of need satisfaction and the ability to achieve their goals in order to be happy and fulfilled. A condition often given as one attribute or dimension of health. It…

As regards (e.g. used when discussing only one of a series of cited specimens).