Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Volunteer services department
A hospital department which coordinates volunteer services to the hospital.
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Vocational rehabilitation counselor
A person who counsels disabled individuals with respect to vocations and vocational training in order best to fit together the individual and a vocation suitable to her physical, mental, and emotional abilities. Vocational rehabilitation is a program of services designed to enable people with disabilities to become or remain employed. Originally mandated by the Rehabilitation…
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Vector health
In public health, a blood-feeding insect, such as a mosquito, which transmits disease.
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Vector genetics
A self-replicating deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecule into which foreign DNA fragments are inserted and then propagated in a host cell.
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Value-added
Reflecting the position that something done to a given product or service has increased its value. Value-added taxes indicate that a product is worth more, and thus can be subject to a higher tax, after something has been done to it, such as merely keeping it in stock for the convenience of the customer. An…
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Utilization review coordinator
A hospital employee, typically a medical record professional or a nurse, who coordinates the hospital’s utilization review activities, gathers data from medical records and elsewhere for the use of the utilization review committee and others, and otherwise assists in utilization review. The UR coordinator may also have duties involving liaison with other community agencies regarding…
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Use failure
When a treatment fails to achieve its intended results, the failure may be due to the method employed or its use. For example, a contraceptive failure may occur because the method was inadequate or because it really was not employed or was employed improperly. Thus the “method effectiveness” or the “use effectiveness” may have been…
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Universe
The term used to designate the kind of thing being considered. In health care, diagnoses, the terms applied to describe disorders of patients, form one universe. Other universes are the ages of patients, sexes, external forces such as those which cause injuries, surgical procedures – the list is virtually endless.
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United States Pharmacopeia Convention
An organization of 325 authorities in medicine, pharmacy, and allied sciences, which revises and publishes the Pharmacopeia of the United States of America (USP) and the National Formulary. The official name for a site or address of a resource on the Internet. Resources include home pages, graphic images, text files, and digitized sights and sounds…
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United Network for Organ Sharing
A national organ transplant network. This network is under contract to the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) to coordinate United States organ procurement activities.
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