Medical Procedure

A Medical Procedure is a course of action intended to achieve a healthcare result.

• Context:
  • It can be applied in a Medical Procedure Intervention Task.
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• Example(s):
  • a Medical Test.
  • a Surgical Procedure, such as: Therapeutic Phlebotomy, or Traditional Bloodletting.
  • a Bone Setting Procedure.
  • an Interventional Procedure.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Medical Drug.
  • a Medical Device.
• See: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Clinical Trial.

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References

2021a

• (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_procedure Retrieved:2021-12-22.
  • A medical procedure is a course of action intended to achieve a result in the delivery of healthcare.

    A medical procedure with the intention of determining, measuring, or diagnosing a patient condition or parameter is also called a medical test. Other common kinds of procedures are therapeutic (i.e., intended to treat, cure, or restore function or structure), such as surgical and physical rehabilitation procedures.

2021b

• (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapy#Semantic_field Retrieved:2021-12-25.
  • QUOTE: The words care, therapy, treatment, and intervention overlap in a semantic field, and thus they can be synonymous depending on context. Moving rightward through that order, the connotative level of holism decreases and the level of specificity (to concrete instances) increases. Thus, in health care contexts (where its senses are always noncount), the word care tends to imply a broad idea of everything done to protect or improve someone's health (for example, as in the terms preventive care and primary care, which connote ongoing action), although it sometimes implies a narrower idea (for example, in the simplest cases of wound care or postanesthesia care, a few particular steps are sufficient, and the patient's interaction with that provider is soon finished). In contrast, the word intervention tends to be specific and concrete, and thus the word is often countable; for example, one instance of cardiac catheterization is one intervention performed, and coronary care (noncount) can require a series of interventions (count). At the extreme, the piling on of such countable interventions amounts to interventionism, a flawed model of care lacking holistic circumspection—merely treating discrete problems (in billable increments) rather than maintaining health. Therapy and treatment, in the middle of the semantic field, can connote either the holism of care or the discreteness of intervention, with context conveying the intent in each use. Accordingly, they can be used in both noncount and count senses (for example, therapy for chronic kidney disease can involve several dialysis treatments per week).

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