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Patient Rights
Patient rights: entitlements in health care, defined by the WMA Declaration of Lisbon (1981), AMA ethics code, 42 CFR 482.13, and WHO's 2024 Patient Safety Rights Charter, covering consent, confidentiality, quality care, and billing disputes.
Patient Satisfaction
Patient satisfaction is the degree to which patients regard a health care service as useful, effective, or beneficial, and is now systematically collected as a quality indicator.
Patient Square Capital
Patient Square Capital is a dedicated health care investment firm founded in 2020 in Menlo Park, California, by former KKR dealmaker Jim Momtazee, with about $17.5 billion under management.
Patient Transfer
Patient transfer is the movement of a patient between healthcare locations, within one hospital or between facilities, together with the handoff of information and responsibility for care.
Patient Zero (film)
Patient Zero (2018) is a pandemic horror thriller directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, starring Matt Smith, Natalie Dormer, and Stanley Tucci; a rabies-virus survivor who can talk to the infected hunts the outbreak's first victim. Released 2018, 11% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Patient-Centered Care
Patient-centered care (PCC), also person-centred care, is healthcare that respects and responds to individual patients' preferences, needs, and values (IOM 2001). Evidence shows stronger effects on satisfaction and self-management than clinical outcomes; embodied in the PCMH and shared decision making.
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is an independent nonprofit organization in Washington, DC, authorized by Congress in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 to fund comparative clinical effectiveness research.
Patient-controlled analgesia
Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) is a pain management method in which patients press a pump button to self-administer intravenous opioid, used since the early 1970s for postoperative, labor, and cancer pain.
Patient-controlled epidural analgesia
Patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) is a pain management method in which patients self-administer epidural local anesthetic and opioid via a pump, used chiefly for labor pain.
Patient-derived organoid
A patient-derived organoid (PDO) is a 3D microtissue cultured from a patient's own tissue that reproduces the source tissue's architecture and genetics, enabling drug screening and precision oncology.
Patient-derived orthotopic xenograft
A patient-derived orthotopic xenograft (PDOX) is a preclinical cancer model in which patient tumor fragments are surgically implanted into the corresponding organ of an immunodeficient mouse.
Patient-reported outcome measure
A patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) is a questionnaire completed by patients to record their symptoms, function, or quality of life, with no interpretation by a clinician.
Patient-Specific Functional Scale
The Patient-Specific Functional Scale (PSFS) is a patient-reported outcome measure, reported by P. Stratford in 1995, in which patients rate their own important activities from 0 to 10 to track rehabilitation progress.
Patient-specific modeling
Patient-specific modeling builds a mathematical or physics-based simulation of an individual patient's anatomy, physiology, or disease to support diagnosis and treatment planning, with several implementations cleared as medical devices.
Patient21
Patient21 is a Berlin-based healthtech company, founded in 2019 by Christopher Muhr and Nicolas Hantzsch, that combines proprietary clinic software with a network of owned outpatient clinics across Germany.
PatientFi
PatientFi, formerly PatientFirst Finance, is an American fintech company founded in 2017 and based in Irvine, California, that offers point-of-sale monthly payment plans for out-of-pocket medical and dental procedures.
Patients' Rooms
Patients' Rooms: MeSH descriptor D010362 for rooms occupied by one or more patients in a health facility, covering private rooms, semiprivate rooms, and general wards, their design, infection control, and economics.
Patika
Patika, also known as Kusulaka Patika, was an Indo-Scythian ruler of Chukhsa, son of the satrap Liaka Kusulaka, who dedicated a relic of Shakyamuni and founded a monastery near Taxila.
Paṭikaputta
Paṭikaputta (पटिकपुत्त), also Pāṭhikaputta, was a naked ascetic in Vesālī who challenged the Buddha to a contest of psychic powers, then could not rise from his seat when summoned.
Patimokkha
The Patimokkha (Sanskrit Prātimokṣa) is the code of training rules for Buddhist monks and nuns, with 227 rules for monks, recited at fortnightly uposatha ceremonies.
Patina
Patina is a surface layer that forms on a material through atmospheric exposure, moisture, or use, most familiar as the green film on copper and bronze.
Patina Miller
Patina Miller (born 1984, Pageland, South Carolina) is an American actress and singer, Tony winner for Pippin (2013), Olivier- and Tony-nominated for originating Deloris in Sister Act, and star of Raising Kanan.
Patio process
The patio process is a method of refining silver by mercury amalgamation, introduced by Bartolomé de Medina at Pachuca, Mexico, in the mid-1550s and used for about 350 years.
Patiromer calcium
Patiromer calcium (patiromer sorbitex calcium, Veltassa) is a non-absorbed oral potassium-binding polymer with a calcium-sorbitol counterion that treats chronic hyperkalemia by exchanging calcium for potassium in the colon, raising fecal potassium excretion; onset 7-48 hours, common effects constipation and hypomagnesemia.
Patirruppattu
Patirruppattu (Patiṟṟuppattu, "ten tens") is a classical Tamil anthology of panegyric poems praising the ancient Cera kings of South India, and the principal source for early Cera history.
Patisiran
Patisiran (Onpattro), an Alnylam lipid-nanoparticle siRNA silencing transthyretin mRNA, was the first FDA-approved RNAi drug (2018) for hATTR polyneuropathy, improving mNIS+7 by 34 points versus placebo in APOLLO.
Pâtisserie
Pâtisserie: the French craft, products, and shops of baked sweet goods, from a 14th-century word; covers history from Babylon and Carême, the CAP Pâtissier qualification, hygiene rules, and the Italian pasticceria.
Patlabor (機動警察パトレイバー)
Patlabor (機動警察パトレイバー, Mobile Police Patlabor) is a Japanese media franchise begun in 1988 by the Headgear collective, depicting Tokyo police piloting humanoid Labors against Labor crime, spanning OVA, TV, films, manga, live action, and the 2026 series EZY.
Patlabor EZY
Patlabor EZY (機動警察パトレイバーEZY) is a new Mobile Police Patlabor anime directed by Yutaka Izubuchi, written by Kazunori Ito, and animated by J.C.STAFF. Released as three theatrical chapters from May 2026 to March 2027, it follows a new Special Vehicles Section 2 generation piloting the AV-98Plus Ingram in 2030s Japan.
Patlak plot
The Patlak plot, also called the Gjedde-Patlak plot, is a graphical method in pharmacokinetic imaging that estimates the irreversible tracer uptake rate constant Ki from dynamic PET data.