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  • Risk for confusion acute

    At risk for reversible disturbances of consciousness, attention, cognition, and perception that develop over a short period of time.  

  • Chronic confusion

    An irreversible, longstanding, and/or progressive deterioration of intellect and personality characterized by decreased ability to interpret environmental stimuli, decreased capacity for intellectual thought processes, and disturbances of memory, orientation, and behavior.  

  • Acute confusion

    The abrupt onset of reversible disturbances of consciousness, attention, cognition, and perception that develop over a short period of time.  

  • Confounding by indication

    The bias introduced into a study when a variable is a risk factor for a disease among non-exposed persons, even though the risk factor is not an intermediate step in the causal pathway between the exposure and the disease.  

  • Confluence of sinuses

    The union of the superior sagittal and transverse venous sinuses.  

  • Parental role conflict

    Parent experience of role confusion and conflict in response to crisis.  

  • Decisional conflict

    The state of uncertainty about the course of action to be taken when choice among competing actions involves risk, loss, or challenge to personal life values.  

  • Confirmatory test

    A test used to validate the results obtained by another. The confirmatory test may be more sensitive or specific but must be based on different testing principles.  

  • Confirm

    To show by repetition of a test (or with a complementary test) that a result initially obtained is accurate.  

  • Activity configuration

    An assessment approach used by occupational therapists to determine an individual’s usual use of time during a typical week. The technique is designed to elicit the person’s perceptions of the nature of daily activities and satisfaction with them.  

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