Diagnosis & Assessment
•The process of identifying a disease from symptoms and tests.
What is Diagnosis
Doing what is best for the patient.
What is Beneficence
The level of care expected from competent professionals
What is Standard of Care
Distorted sense of taste
What is Dysgeusia
The ability to receive needed health services
What is access to care
The expected outcome of a disease
What is Prognosis
Avoiding harm to the patient
What is Nonmaleficence
Using the best research to guide patient care
What is Evidence-Based practice
Age-related hearing loss
What is presbycusis
This occurs when groups receive different quality or levels of care
What is health care disparity
The act of evaluating a patient's condition.
What is Assessment
Telling the truth to patients
What is Veracity
This type of care integrates research, experience, and patient values
What is Evidence-Based practice
Distorted sense of smell
What is parosmia
Barriers that prevent equality in treatment in healthcare
What is healthcare disparity
This combines observation, tests, and interviews to understand a patient’s status.
What is Assessment
Keeping patient information private
What is Confidentiality
A term for treatment guide by up-to-date scientific findings
What is Evidence-based care
Numbness or reduced sense of touch
What is hypoesthesia
Unequal access to care across different populations
What is healthcare disparity
Predicting the likely course and recovery potential of a disease is known as this.
What is Prognosis
Respecting a patient's right to make decisions
What is Autonomy
An expected and accepted way of performing care safely and effectively
What is standard of care
Loss of half of visual field
What is hemianopia
Term for the social/economic inequalities that affect health outcomes
What is health care disparity