Category: R

A category of care giver proposed by the American Medical Association (AMA) in 1988 in an effort to alleviate the nursing shortage. RCTs would have been required to have little education before entering a brief training program, after which they would have been “registered under an arm of the state medical board” (not the state…

A term being widely used to describe the process of studying various aspects of health care and making changes in organization, procedures, or resources with the aim of increasing efficienty and/or effectiveness.  

Providing individual patients or patient populations with recreational activities to improve, restore, or maintain their physical and mental well-being. Activities may include arts and crafts, sports, outings, social gatherings, and so forth. The provider is called a therapeutic recreation specialist. Sometimes called activities therapy.  

The money awarded by a court to the successful plaintiff in a lawsuit. The term can also mean the amount of money actually collected.  

Placing data (cases, for example) from one classification (scheme) into categories of a second classification (when there is one-to-one correspondence) or by concatenating one or more categories from the first classification into the second, a sort of “compound grouping.” Where the groups of the second classification are more specific than or different from those of…

A situation where two copies of an allele are required for a characteristic to be expressed.  

A statistic derived from performing a receiver operating characteristic analysis (ROC analysis).  

A method of evaluating diagnostic imaging tests.  

A document acknowledging that money or goods have been received.  

A fact which shifts the “burden of proof” from one party to the other in a lawsuit. It has been proposed that if a physician sued for malpractice has followed approved clinical practice guidelines, this would create a legal presumption that the physician was not negligent. Such a presumption may be rebutted by the plaintiff…