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unusual facts about Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System


PROMIS

Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System, multi-institutional NIH initiative started in 2004


Aberbargoed Hospital

The hospital closed in November 2010, and patient care was transferred temporarily to other local facilities, including Caerphilly District Miners Hospital.

Aidan Foster

Georgia Brooks (Saskia Hampele) confronts Aidan about a patient file with similar results to Andrew.

Biorhythm

The 23- and 28-day rhythms used by biorhythmists, however, were first devised in the late 19th century by Wilhelm Fliess, a Berlin physician and patient of Sigmund Freud.

Clinical Care Classification System

In 1988 to 1990, Harriet Werley established the Nursing Minimum Data Set, which consisted of 12 variables: 8 variables focused on patient demographics and the remaining 4 focused on nursing practice—

Corneal transplantation

Russian eye surgeon Vladimir Filatov's attempts at transplanting cornea started with the first try in 1912 and were continued, gradually improving until on 6 May 1931 he successfully grafted a patient using corneal tissue from a deceased person.

Elizabeth Barry

The actor Thomas Betterton said that her acting gave "success to plays that would disgust the most patient reader", and the critic and playwright John Dennis described her as "that incomparable Actress changing like Nature which she represents, from Passion to Passion, from Extream to Extream, with piercing Force and with easy Grace".

Elizabeth Warrington

In a test administered by Warrington and Tim Shallice from University College London, the short term memory of a patient who suffered head trauma following a motorcycle accident was tested.

Erin Kelly

Brooks's 2009 feature Waking Madison (starring Sarah Roemer and Elisabeth Shue) saw Kelly taking her darkest role to date as Grace, a mental patient with an addictive personality.

Examination table

During these exams, doctors in offices (UK: surgeries), clinics and hospitals use an adjusting mechanism to manipulate and position the table to allow patient support, closer examination of a portion or the entire patient, and the ability to move the patient on and off the table safely.

Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Their findings upon a transfer of inflamed patient tissue to primates was published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine (Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 39–56).

Frank Dolphin

In February 2012 Taoiseach Enda Kenny announced that RigneyDolphin would provide patient management, patient outreach and telephone services to the Cleveland Clinic.

Frenkel exercises

The exercises were developed by Heinrich Frenkel, a Swiss neurologist who, one day in 1887, while examining a patient with ataxia, observed the patient's poor performance of the finger-to-nose test.

Geliebte Clara

Robert tries in vain to take his own life, by jumping into the River Rhine, but accepts the offer of Dr. Richartz to be a patient at his sanatorium at Endenich in Bonn.

Genomic Medicine Institute

For clinicians, there are extensive opportunities for interaction with internationally renowned clinicians at the Cleveland Clinic at clinics, tumor boards and in direct patient care.

Glenn Langan

Appeared as a French professor in the romantic Margie (1946), a devoted young doctor protecting Gene Tierney from the evil machinations of Vincent Price in Dragonwyck (1946), and as one of the psychiatrists looking after demented patient Olivia de Havilland in the The Snake Pit (1948).

Gregory T. Baldwin

From 2006 to 2009 he supported aeromedical evacuation operations for Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom at the Theater Patient Movement Requirements Center, Europe at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.

Hertford County Hospital

Subscribers included Professor T. R. Malthus, Baron Dimsdale and Earl Cowper, By 1835, the financial crisis had limited the number of in-patient beds to 10, but during the following years this number was increased.

Hill-Rom

In October 2008, Hill-Rom acquired Sweden-based Liko, a manufacturer of mobile and stationary patient lift systems and associated accessories for $183M.

Hospital Tobar García

Tobar Garcia was founded in 1968, two years after its construction started; in-patient services began in 1969 with a contingent of children from Montes de Oca in Belgrano Department, Santa Fe.

Hospital warehouse

), protective equipment (gloves, gowns, masks, etc.), personal care products/toiletries (wash basins, bedpans, diapers, shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrushes, patient belonging bags, drinking cups, etc.), feeding tubes, foley catheters, respiratory supplies and orthopedic supplies (crutches, arm slings, splints, etc.

Hydrogen breath test

Fructose malabsorption - the patient takes a base reading of hydrogen levels in his/her breath.

Intraoral Camera

While other digital SLR cameras are useful, IOCs are best used chairside to show the patient a clear picture of the inside of their mouth, allowing the dentist to consult them on various treatment options, and save the images directly to a patient’s file.

Jean-Baptiste Denys

Denys' third patient to undergo a blood transfusion was Swedish Baron Gustaf Bonde.

Karl Jaspers

This view has caused some controversy, and the likes of R. D. Laing and Richard Bentall (1999, p. 133-135) have criticised it, stressing that taking this stance can lead therapists into the complacency of assuming that because they do not understand a patient, the patient is deluded and further investigation on the part of the therapist will have no effect.

Killed or Seriously Injured

The UK definition covers injury resulting in a person being detained in hospital as an in-patient, in addition all injuries causing: fractures, concussion, internal injuries, crushings, burns (excluding friction burns), severe cuts, severe general shock which require medical treatment even if this does not result in a stay in hospital as an in-patient.

KSFH

Patients in nearby El Camino Hospital (diagonally bordering the campus, separated by the football field) would call in and make requests.

Legionella gormanii

Legionella gormanii is a bacterium from the genus of Legionella which was isolated from soil samples from a creek bank in Atlanta and from the bronchial brush specimen of a patient who suffered from pneumonia.

London's Air Ambulance

From its base at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, the helicopter can reach any patient inside the M25 London orbital road, which acts as the service's catchment area, within 15 minutes.

Matthew Lamb

Mathew Charles Lamb (1948–1976), Canadian spree killer and psychiatric patient, latterly a soldier in the Rhodesian Security Forces

Milan Vuitch

The story, by Mark Feldstein, noted a patient who said that Vuitch had operated on her without anesthesia.

Moon Base One

The 'patient' will be Tony Hale, from Aston near Birmingham (who goes on to feature in the rest of the series).

Murphy's sign

The sign is named after American physician John Benjamin Murphy (1857–1916), a prominent Chicago surgeon from the 1880s through the early 1900s, who first described the hypersensitivity to deep palpation in the subcostal area when a patient with gallbladder disease takes a deep breath.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Janet Maslin of The New York Times gave the film a mediocre review explaining that the "third look at the quintessentially middle-American Griswold family, led by Clark and the very patient Ellen is only a weary shadow of the original National Lampoon's Vacation."

Nick Foligno

He is an avid supporter of cancer patient care and research at Roger’s House, the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Foundation, the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation and the Ottawa Hospital Foundation.

Patient recruitment

Monitoring and reporting: To assess the effects of the patient recruitment activities on enrollment, ongoing monitoring is performed.

Personality clash

Neville Symington indeed saw a patient's willingness to proceed with therapy, despite her dislike of him, as a positive sign of health, and as a beginning repudiation of her narcissism.

Polseres vermelles

The show was created by Albert Espinosa and draws on his childhood experiences as a hospital patient.

Qazi Mazhar Qayyum

Like Dr. Joseph Bell of Arthur Conan Doyle, he could diagnose any illness by looking at a patient's face.

Remote surgery

One of the earliest remote surgeries was conducted on 7 September 2001 across the Atlantic Ocean, with a surgeon (Dr. Jacques Marescaux) in New York performing a cholecystectomy on a 68-year-old female patient 6,230 km away in Strasbourg, France named Operation Lindbergh.

Rose Selfridge

Her story has been recently portrayed in the television series Mr Selfridge, where she is shown as the patient wife (played by Frances O'Connor) of the famous businessman.

Rudolf Virchow Award

1990 - John O'Neil - The Politics of Patient Dissatisfaction in Cross-Cultural Clinical Encounters: A Canadian Inuit example, Medical Anthropology 3 (4): 325-344.

Simon Day

He has an altercation with a patient's relative and receives a bang on the head, and he becomes increasingly lary during the episode, at one point making a pass at Connie Beauchamp; people assume he is drunk, but it transpires that he has a developed a Subdural hematoma as a result of the knock on the head.

Strümpell

Strümpell's sign, clinical sign in which the patient's attempt to flex the knee against resistance elicits an extensor plantar reflex

Texas Oilman's Bass Invitational

The money raised supports patient care and research in pediatric kidney and urinary tract diseases and disorders.

The Attenbury Emeralds

There are several other nearly identical emeralds, linked by inscribed verses from the Persian poet Hafez; an Indian Maharaja to whose ancestors all of them once belonged and who seeks to reunite them; and a patient killer, who over decades committed several murders for the sake of these emeralds.

Three Little Fishies

In a 1981 Episode of Three's Company, a wacky misunderstanding occurs when Jack and Janet overhear a psychiatrist played by Jeffrey Tambor repeatedly saying "boom, boom, dittum dottem..." while trying to remember the words to this song to help him get through to a patient.

Vacco v. Quill

To this effect the Court quoted a House Judiciary Committee hearing, stating that a physician performing an assisted suicide, "must, necessarily and indubitably, intend primarily that the patient be made dead."

Virtual reality in telerehabilitation

Virtual reality in telerehabilitation is a method used first in the training of musculoskeletal patients using asynchronous patient data uploading, and an internet video link.

William Boyett

Boyett earned much praise for The Hidden as a hospital patient named Jonathan P. Miller, possessed by an alien being with a taste for red Ferraris and rock and roll music.

Zasetsky

Zasetsky (born c. 1920) is the pseudonym of a patient who was treated by Russian neuropsychologist Alexander Luria.


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