medical information

collocation in English

meaningsofmedicalandinformation

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medical
adjective
uk
/ˈmed.ɪ.kəl/
us
/ˈmed.ɪ.kəl/
related to the treatment of illness ...
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information
noun[U]
uk
/ˌɪn.fəˈmeɪ.ʃən/
us
/ˌɪn.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃən/
facts about a situation, person, ...
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(Definition ofmedicalandinformationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmedical information

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Disease/medicalinformationwas most wanted at the transition from curative to palliative care and least wanted at patient death.
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Medicalinformationsystem managers will become key and influential members of a rational team of disease management providers (16).
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The quantity ofmedicalinformationavailable to patients clearly affects the physician's role as the provider and gatekeeper ofmedicalinformation.
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Today, many patients are just a few clicks away frommedicalinformationprovided by universities, medical journals, professional associations, private organizations, and government agencies.
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The first application is concerned with providing access to on-linemedicalinformation, the second with helping medical students learn anatomy.
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Furthermore, because the information is universally available independent of finances, insurance, or location, it promotes justice in the dispersal ofmedicalinformation.
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This process should also include discussions about possible threats to privacy and the confidentiality ofmedicalinformation.
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Patients (or their surrogates) have a right tomedicalinformationabout themselves, and assistance in understanding that information.
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Amedicalinformationextraction system needs a lexicon of syntactic and semantic information about medical terms and concepts.
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Quality assurance through automated monitoring and concurrent feedback using a computer-basedmedicalinformationsystem.
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A general-purpose semantic lexicon will not contain the specialized medical jargon and terminology that are required formedicalinformationprocessing.
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When we met, there was initially an exchange ofmedicalinformation.
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Remembering what the doctor said: organisation and older adults' memory formedicalinformation.
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Thus, physicians have only a limited obligation to help their patients evaluate outsidemedicalinformation.
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On the surface, themedicalinformationwas not compelling enough one way or another to suggest an easy decision.
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The consulting physician, however, will only weigh the factualmedicalinformationto come to a judgment.
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Additionally, elderly people may be less able to comply because of problems in receiving, understanding, processing and acting uponmedicalinformation.
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However, given that the physician cannot control her patient's access tomedicalinformation, she must make the best of a difficult situation.
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Having access to medical records and diagnostic results enables physician-patients to peruse their ownmedicalinformation.
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Because patients may lack the expertise to evaluate the quality ofmedicalinformation, physicians should help their patients to evaluate information.
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