Initiative on Methods, Measurement, and Pain Assessment in Clinical Trials
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ment of overt clinical manifestation is known as disease; however, if the infection provokes an immune response only, without overt clinical disease, it is a subclinical or inapparent infection.
Infertility Definition The inability to conceive and have children. Infertility is also defined as the failure to conceive after a year of regular intercourse without contraception.
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Definition A name used to categorize two diseases, Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, both of which cause inflammation to the gastrointestinal tract. In addition to directly affecting the gastrointestinal tract, they both indirectly affect many other of the body’s systems. The etiology of these two diseases is unknown but it is speculated that there is involvement of a person’s diet, genetic makeup, and immune system. Even though some of the same medications are used to treat both the two disease are different. Ulcerative colitis affects only the large intestine and the superficial mucosal lining. See Crohn’s disease below.
Initiative on Methods, Measurement, and Pain Assessment in Clinical Trials Definition An on-going interdisciplinary effort to standardize the means by which adult and pediatric pain-related clinical trials are conducted, including a greater emphasis on patient-reported outcomes like healthrelated quality of life.
Injecting Drug Use Definition IV drug use is a relatively recent phenomenon arising from the invention of re-useable syringes and the synthesis of chemically pure drugs.
Injuries Definition Injuries are damages to the body that are due to the sudden release of energy (mechanical, thermal, electric, chemical) exceeding the level that the body can tolerate or to the deprivation of essential elements such as heat or oxygen. Injuries can be classified into intentional (if someone intends to harm other people, as is the case of homicides and wars, or him/herself, as in suicides) and unintentional (if the injury is accidental). Examples of mechanisms causing unintentional injuries are road traffic accidents, falls, poisonings, fires, drownings.
Informal Caregiver Definition The responsible person (family member, relative, friend, next-of-kin or significant others from the social network) who offers caregiving to the patient.
Insecticide-Treated Net Definition Insecticide-Treated Nets (ITNs) are nets treated with special chemicals. The ITNs repel
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