Category: P
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Patricide
Murder of one’s father or another close relative.
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Patient-year
A patient experience of 1 year’s duration, e.g., on a waiting list, in a treatment program, under observation, or suffering an illness. One patient-year is equal to, for example, the experience of two patients for 6 months, or 12 patients for 1 month each.
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Patient-ventilator interaction
The complex link between a patient’s neurologically mediated control of breathing (and the elasticity and resistance of his or her airways) and the pressures and volumes of gases injected into the patient by a mechanical ventilator. Failure of these two systems to work harmoniously is called patient-ventilator dyssynchrony.
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Patient transporter
Someone who conveys patients from one health care location to another.
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Patient’s rights
Those culturally and legally specified rights, claims, powers, privileges, and remedies due to a person receiving health care services.
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Patient return electrode
In electrosurgery, an electrode that collects the current used to operate on the patient and returns it to a current generator.
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Patient management
A description of pause the interaction, from intake to discharge, between the patient and the health care team. It includes communication, empathy, examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, and intervention. The last element, intervention (or treatment), depends on the others.
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Patient concern
A complaint or grievance raised by a patient (or a personal representative of a patient) about care rendered to him or her.
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Patient compensation fund
A governmentally administered account used as a treasury from which disbursements are made to those injured as a result of incompetence or malpractice by health care providers.
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Patient circuit
The artificial conduit that relays gases between a mechanical ventilator and a patient.