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  2. Health care - Wikipedia

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    Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals and allied health fields. Medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, midwifery, nursing, optometry ...

  3. Medical error - Wikipedia

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    While in 2000 the Committee on Quality of Health Care in America affirmed medical mistakes are an "unavoidable outcome of learning to practice medicine", at 2019 the commonly accepted link between prescribing skills and clinical clerkships was not yet demonstrated by the available data and in the U.S. legibility of handwritten prescriptions has ...

  4. Spell checker - Wikipedia

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    Spell checker. In software, a spell checker (or spelling checker or spell check) is a software feature that checks for misspellings in a text. Spell-checking features are often embedded in software or services, such as a word processor, email client, electronic dictionary, or search engine . It came with my Pea Sea. Miss Steaks I can knot sea.

  5. Medical terminology - Wikipedia

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    Medical terminology. Medical terminology is a language used to precisely describe the human body including all its components, processes, conditions affecting it, and procedures performed upon it. Medical terminology is used in the field of medicine . Medical terminology has quite regular morphology, the same prefixes and suffixes are used to ...

  6. ABC (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    ABC (medicine) Opening the airway with a head tilt-chin lift maneuver. Looking, listening and feeling for breathing. Perform chest compressions to support circulation in those who are non-responsive without meaningful breaths. ABC and its variations are initialism mnemonics for essential steps used by both medical professionals and lay persons ...

  7. Patient safety - Wikipedia

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    Discovering that patient safety had become a frequent topic for journalists, health care experts, and the public, it was harder to see overall improvements on a national level. What was noteworthy was the impact on attitudes and organizations. Few health care professionals now doubted that preventable medical injuries were a serious problem.

  8. Tricare - Wikipedia

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    Tricare. Tricare (styled TRICARE) is a health care program of the United States Department of Defense Military Health System. [1] Tricare provides civilian health benefits for U.S Armed Forces military personnel, military retirees, and their dependents, including some members of the Reserve Component. Tricare is the civilian care component of ...

  9. Health - Wikipedia

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    Advanced industrial countries (with the exception of the United States) and many developing countries provide medical services through a system of universal health care that aims to guarantee care for all through a single-payer health care system, or compulsory private or co-operative health insurance. This is intended to ensure that the entire ...