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Chapter 2 Flash Card
Introduction to Health Records
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| subjective | patient experience |
| objective | patient's physical exam, labatory finding and imaging studies |
| assessment | diagnosis |
| plan | course of action |
| SOAP | subjective, objective, assessment, plan |
| acute | it just started recently or a sharp, severe symptom |
| chronic | it has been going on for a while now |
| exacerbation | it is getting worse |
| abrupt | all of a sudden |
| febrile | to have a fever |
| afebrile | to not have a fever |
| malaise | not feeling well |
| progressive | more and more each day |
| symptom | something a patient feels |
| noncontributory | not related to this specific problem |
| lethargic | a decrease of level of consciousness in a medical record, this is generally an indication that he patient is really sick |
| genetic/hereditary | it runs in the family |
| alert | able to answer questions; responsive; interactive |
| oriented | being aware of who he or she is, where he or she is, and the current time; a patient who is aware of all three is "oriented x3" |
| marked | is really stands out |
| unremarkable | another way of saying normal |
| auscultation | to listen |
| percussion | to hit something and listen to the resulting sound or feel for the resulting vibrations, drums are percussion instrument |
| palpation | to feel |
| impression | another way of saying assessment |
| diagnosis | what the health care professional thinks the patient has |
| differential diagnois | a list of conditions the patient may have based on the symptoms exhibited and the results of the exam |
| benign | safe |
| malignant | dangerous; a problem |
| degeneration | to be getting worse |