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The principal datum in PCT methodology is the controlled variable. The fundamental step of PCT research, the test for controlled variables, begins with the slow and gentle application of disturbing influences to the state of a variable in the environment which the researcher surmises is already under control by the observed organism.
PCT reduces antibiotic exposure without adverse outcomes in the ED [26] [27] COPD exacerbation: RCT 0.1-0. 5 PCT reduces antibiotic exposure without adverse outcomes in the ED and hospital [26] [27] [28] Endocarditis: observational 2.3 PCT is an independent predictor with high diagnostic accuracy for acute endocarditis [29] [30] Meningitis ...
William T. Powers (August 29, 1926 – May 24, 2013) was a medical physicist and an independent scholar of experimental and theoretical psychology [1] [2] [3] who developed the perceptual control theory (PCT) model of behavior as the control of perception.
PCT: progesterone challenge test Patient care technician: PCV: packed cell volume (see hematocrit) polycythemia vera: PCWP: pulmonary capillary wedge pressure: PD: Parkinson's disease paroxysmal dyskinesia peritoneal dialysis physical diagnosis personality disorder program director PDA: patent ductus arteriosus posterior descending artery: PDD
Patient care technician; Person-centered therapy; Porphyria cutanea tarda, the most common subtype of porphyria; Postcoital test, for infertility; Post-coital tristesse; Pragmatic clinical trial; Primary care trusts, UK NHS bodies 2001–2013; Procalcitonin, a precursor of the hormone calcitonin; Progestogen challenge test; Proximal convoluted ...
PCT: Primary care trust (UK) PGNZ: Pharmaceutical Guild of New Zealand PHARM: Pharmaceutical Health and Rational Use of Medicines (Australia) Pharm.D: Doctor of Pharmacy PMS: Personal Medical Services alternative contract for UK GPs POG: Pediatric Oncology Group PRHO: Pre-registration house officer (UK) PSNZ: Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand
The prism cover test (PCT) is an objective measurement and the gold standard in measuring strabismus, i.e. ocular misalignment, or a deviation of the eye. [1] It is used by ophthalmologists, orthoptists, and optometrists in order to measure the vertical and horizontal deviation and includes both manifest and latent components. [1]
The postcoital test (PCT), also known as the Sims test, Hühner test ,Sims–Hühner test, or cervical mucous penetration assay is a test in the evaluation of infertility. The test examines interaction between sperm and mucus of the cervix .