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physical examination [1] PEA: pulseless electrical activity: PERRLA: pupils equal, round and reactive to light [3] PEB: cisplatin, etoposide, and bleomycin (chemotherapy regimen) PEEP: positive end-expiratory pressure: PEF: peak expiratory flow: PEFR: peak expiratory flow rate: PEG: percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy: PEM: protein/energy ...
(2000F–2060F) Physical examination (3006F–3776F) Diagnostic/screening processes or results (4000F–4563F) Therapeutic, preventive or other interventions (5005F–5250F) Follow-up or other outcomes (6005F–6150F) Patient safety (7010F–7025F) Structural measures (9001F–9007F) Non-measure claims-based reporting
A medical test is a medical procedure performed to detect, diagnose, or monitor diseases, disease processes, susceptibility, or to determine a course of treatment. The tests are classified by speciality field, conveying in which ward of a hospital or by which specialist doctor these tests are usually performed.
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In a physical examination, medical examination, clinical examination, or medical checkup, a medical practitioner examines a patient for any possible medical signs or symptoms of a medical condition. It generally consists of a series of questions about the patient's medical history followed by an examination based on the reported symptoms.
history and physical examination (which very often are considered as a pair) HPA: hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis: HPETE: hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid: HPF: high-power field HPI H/oPI: history of the present illness: HPOA: hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy hPL: human placental lactogen (same as human chorionic somatomammotropin) HPP
event-free survival EFW: estimated fetal weight EGBUS: external genitalia, Bartholin's glands, urethra & Skene's glands: EGD: esophagogastroduodenoscopy: EGF: epidermal growth factor: EGPA: eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (formerly known as Churg–Strauss syndrome) EHEC: enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli: EIEC: enteroinvasive ...
This is a list of mnemonics used in medicine and medical science, categorized and alphabetized. A mnemonic is any technique that assists the human memory with information retention or retrieval by making abstract or impersonal information more accessible and meaningful, and therefore easier to remember; many of them are acronyms or initialisms which reduce a lengthy set of terms to a single ...