Interventional Treatment

An Interventional Treatment is a treatment that intervenes.

• Example(s):
  • a Therapeutic Interventional Treatment, such as:
    • a Vaccine, such as a Covid-19 Vaccine.
    • a Medication (Drug),
  • a Behavioral Therapy,
  • a Medical Device,
  • a Medical Procedure such:
    • a Surgical Procedure,
    • a Gene Transfer,
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Placebo Treatment.
• See: Interventional Treatment Study, Experiment Treatment, Therapeutic Intervention, Drug Development.

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References

2022

• (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_clinical_research#I Retrieved:2023-3-20.
  • QUOTE: Intervention
    • In medicine, a treatment or action taken to prevent or treat disease, or improve health in other ways. (NCI)
    • Primary interventions being studied: types of interventions are Drug, Gene Transfer, Vaccine, Behavior, Device, or Procedure. (NLM)

2021

• (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).

2020

• https://www.medicinenet.com/interventional/definition.htm
  • QUOTE: ... Interventional: Pertaining to the act of intervening, interfering or interceding with the intent of modifying the outcome. ...

2007

• Richards, Dianne, Delwyn J. Bartlett, Keith Wong, John Malouff, and Ronald R. Grunstein. “Increased adherence to CPAP with a group cognitive behavioral treatment intervention: a randomized trial." SLEEP-NEW YORK THEN WESTCHESTER- 30, no. 5 (2007): 635.

2002

• Godley, Mark D., Susan H. Godley, Michael L. Dennis, Rodney Funk, and Lora L. Passetti. “Preliminary outcomes from the assertive continuing care experiment for adolescents discharged from residential treatment.” In: Journal of substance abuse treatment 23, no. 1 (2002): 21-32.

1982

• Tryon, Warren W. “A simplified time‐series analysis for evaluating treatment interventions.” In: Journal of applied behavior analysis 15, no. 3 (1982): 423-429.

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