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GLossary G - M

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Graph   Illustrates data that relate one qualitative variable to another quantitative variable of continuous data. The most common graphs are the histogram and frequency polygon.  
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Histogram   Graphic representation of a frequency distribution table in which the frequency for each class interval is shown by the height of the column. Unlike a bar chart, the bars are contiguous 连续的 to indicate continuity of data. 直方图  
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Hospital Autopsy   Postmortem examination performed by a hospital pathologist or by a physician on the medical staff to whom the responsibility has been delegated, wherever performed, and regardless of the hospitalization status of the patient at the time of his/her death.  
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Hospital Boarder   An individual who receives lodging in the hospital but who is not a hospital inpatient.  
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Hospital Fetal Death   Death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from it mother.  
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Hospital Infection   All infections manifested 表现 during a patient's hospital stay.  
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Hospital Inpatient   A hospital patient who is provided with room, board, and continuous general nursing service in an area of the hospital where patients generally stay at least overnight.  
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Hospital inpatient Autopsy   Postmortem 死后 examination performed in a hospital facility, by a hospital pathologist or by a physician on the medical staff to whom the responsibility has been delegated, on the body of a patient who died during inpatient hospitalization.  
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Hospital Live Birth   The complete expulsion or extraction from the mother, in a hospital facility, of a product of human conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy.  
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Hospital Newborn Inpatient   a hospital patient who born in the hospital at the beginning of his current inpatient hospitalization.  
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Hospital Outpatient   A hospital patient who receives, in person, hospital-based or hospital-coordinated medical services for which the hospital is responsible.  
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Indirect Material Death   Maternal death not directly due to obstetric causes but aggravated 加剧 by the pregnant condition.  
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induce Termination of Pregnancy   The purposeful interruption of an intrauterine pregnancy, with the intention being other than to produce a live born infant and which does not result in a live birth.  
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Medical Care Unit   An assemblage of inpatient beds (or newborn bassinets) and related facilities and assigned personnel in which medical services are provided to a defined and limited class of patients according to their particular medical care needs.  
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Medical Complication   A medical condition that arises during inpatient hospitalization.  
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Medical Consultation   The response by one member of the medical staff to a request for consultation by another member of the medical staff.  
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Medical Services   The activities related to the medical care performed by physicians, nurses, and other professional and technical personnel under the direction of a physician.  
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Medical Staff Unit   One of the departments, division, or specialties into which the organized medical staff of a hospital is divided in order to fulfill medical staff responsibilities.  
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Mode   is the most frequently occurring score in a distribution. 时尚  
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Morbidity 发病率 Morbility 发病   Refers to disease (illness, injury, or an abnormal condition).  
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Mortality   Refers to death (incidence of death).  
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Neonatal 新生儿 Death   Death of a live born infant with the first 27 days,23 hours, and 59 minutes from the moment of birth.  
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