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At a Clinic Medical
ESLV 3819 At a Clinic Meically-related Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ADMINISTERING | giving |
| BLOOD SAMPLES | blood taken for testing |
| CLINICAL SETTING | a hospital, department, outpatient facility, or clinic |
| CODES | number assigned to certain things, such as a treatment, used for government/insurance |
| CONFIDENTIALITY | the state of keeping or being kept secret or private |
| CHRONIC | (of an illness) persisting for a long time or constantly recurring |
| COUNSELING | giving advice, usually in a professional setting/situation |
| DENIAL INSTANCES | times when a payment is not accepted by an insurance company/carrier |
| DIAGNOSIS | identify the nature of (an illness or other problem) by examination of the symptoms |
| DIAGNOSTIC | concerned with the diagnosis of illness or other problems |
| DISCHARGED | a person who has been released from medical care |
| FOLLOW-UP | continued treatment, appointments, etc. |
| INSURERS | insurance companies/providers |
| INTAKE FORMS | paperwork detailing a medical history filled out by new patients |
| MAKE ROUNDS | of a doctor or nurse in a hospital, to visit each hospitalized patient assigned to them |
| MALPRACTICE | improper, illegal, or negligent professional activity or treatment, especially by a medical practitioner |
| MEDICAL CONDITIONS | ailments, illnesses |
| MONITORING | observing and checking the progress or quality of (something) over a period of time |
| NEGLIGENCE | failure to take proper care in doing something |
| OUTSTANDING CLAIMS | unpaid bills, by the patient or insurer |
| PATIENT RECORDS | a file of all illnesses and treatments |
| POSTING CHARGES | entering a charge/bill into the computer system |
| PREVENTATIVE | designed to keep something undesirable such as illness, harm, or accidents from occurring |
| PROVIDERS | healthcare professionals |
| REFERRALS | the directing of a patient to a medical specialist |
| REHABILITATION | the action of restoring someone to health or normal life through training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness |
| REIMBURSEMENT | a sum paid to cover money that has been spent or lost |
| ROUTINE EXAMINATIONS | a periodic comprehensive preventive medical assessment |
| SCOPE OF PRACTICE | the services that a qualified health professional is deemed competent to perform, and permitted to undertake – in keeping with the terms of their professional license |
| SIDE EFFECTS | a secondary, typically undesirable effect of a drug or medical treatment |
| SPECIALTY | a branch of medicine or surgery |
| TREATMENT | a health plan for treating a patient |
| VITAL SIGNS | temperature, pulse, respiration rate (rate of breathing), blood pressure |
| WELLNESS | the state of being in good health |
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