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Unit record system
The system for filing medical records in which a separate file is kept for each individual patient, and the medical records of all hospitalizations of that individual are placed in the one file.
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Unit manager
The person in charge of a patient care unit (PCU).
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Uniform Status of Children of Assisted Conception Act
A uniform (model) act that attempts to resolve the debate over whether surrogacy contracts are valid. The act has two alternatives: the state can choose to declare all such agreements void, or the act provides detailed guideline for valid surrogacy agreements if the state wishes to permit them. North Dakota has adopted the view that…
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Uniform Determination of Death Act
This model Act, adopted as is by 26 states and used as a model in other states, provides the following: “an individual who has sustained either (1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions, or (2) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem, is dead. A determination of death…
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Uniform Commercial Code
A compilation of laws governing commercial transactions including sales of goods, banking transactions, and secured transactions for personal property. The Code has been adopted, with minor modifications, by all 50 states (Louisiana did not adopt the UCC in its entirety), the District of Columbia, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. The UCC has greatly facilitated interstate…
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Undergraduate
A student in an academic institution who has not achieved a given degree. The term most often refers to an individual before the bachelor’s degree, but in medicine, the degree in question is the Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree.
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Uncompensated care
Care for which no payment is expected or no charge is made.
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Turnaround time
The time between discharge of the patient and the completion of that patient’s medical record. The time it takes to process an order and carry it out (e.g., the time it takes to order and receive laboratory test results), time diary Time inventory.
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Tree structure
A term used by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) in its annual Medical Subject Fleadings (MeSH) publication. Each document in the biomedical literature in the library has been classified to all the subjects to which it pertains according to a hierarchical list of subjects reviewed and revised annually by NLM. The list…
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Treadmill exercise test
A method of examining the ability of an individual’s heart (cardiovascular system) to handle exercise. The individual is first examined at rest in order to determine the base electrocardiogram, heart rate, blood pressure, and symptoms, and then the individual walks on a treadmill while the same information is collected during the exercise. The test was…
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