Public health and healthcare

Patient Participation

Patient participation (patient involvement, patient engagement) is patients' involvement in health decision-making, from shared decision making in consultations to service planning and research; MeSH-defined since 1978, with mixed evidence of health outcomes.

Patient Readmission

Patient readmission: unplanned hospital rehospitalization, usually within 30 days of discharge; measured by CMS excess readmission ratios and penalized under the HRRP since October 2012.

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-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.

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.

Patna Medical College and Hospital

Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH), Patna, Bihar government teaching hospital; began as Temple Medical School 1874, Prince of Wales Medical College 1925; 1,675 beds, ₹5,540 crore redevelopment to 5,462 beds.

Patrick Conway

Patrick H. Conway is an American physician-executive and practicing pediatric hospitalist who became chief executive officer of Optum in 2025 after leading CMS innovation programs.

Patrick J. Heagerty

Patrick J. Heagerty is an American biostatistician at the University of Washington known for longitudinal-data methods and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020.

Patrick M. Carter

Patrick Michael Carter is an American emergency physician and injury-prevention researcher who is a University of Michigan professor and co-director of its Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention.

Patrick Vallance

Patrick Vallance (Lord Vallance) is a British physician and former GSK R&D president who was UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser 2018-2023, co-chaired SAGE during COVID-19, testified to the Covid-19 Inquiry, and later served as science minister.

Paul A. Nutting

Paul A. Nutting is an American family medicine physician and primary care researcher in Colorado, a National Academy of Medicine member who led the evaluation of the first patient-centered medical home demonstration project.

Paul Grant Rogers

Paul Grant Rogers (1921–2008) was an American lawyer and Democratic U.S. Representative from Florida who shaped most major American health legislation over 24 years in Congress, earning the nickname "Mr. Health".

Paul P. Lee

Paul P. Lee, full name Paul Pue-Jung Lee, is an American ophthalmologist and health-services researcher at the University of Michigan, elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Paul S. Frame

Paul S. Frame is an American family medicine physician and clinical prevention researcher at the University of Rochester, elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1988.

PAUSE 2 RCT trial

PAUSE-2 pilot randomized trial (NCT04192552): open-label RCT by Douketis et al. comparing PAUSE-based versus ASRA-based perioperative DOAC management in 159 atrial fibrillation patients needing high-bleed-risk surgery or neuraxial anesthesia; similar residual DOAC levels in both arms.

PCLS study

Pennington Center Longitudinal Study (PCLS, NCT00959270): prospective cohort at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, studying obesity, activity, and diet against chronic disease and mortality; ~30,000 enrollees; found visceral fat predicts death in whites.

PCM-EVW-ES study

PCM-EVW-ES (Perfil Clínico y Molecular de la Enfermedad de von Willebrand en España) is a Spanish multicenter VWD registry begun in 2010 that used NGS of VWF in 556 individuals, diagnosing 480 patients and identifying 704 variants, 155 novel.

Pediatric diabetes

Pediatric Diabetes (ISSN 1399-543X), founded 2000 by Munksgaard, is a peer-reviewed bimonthly journal on diabetes in childhood and adolescence, MEDLINE-indexed since 2003, moving from Wiley to Maximum Academic Press in 2026.

Pediatric Hospitals

Pediatric hospitals (children's hospitals) are hospitals dedicated to child health care, from Great Ormond Street (1852) and CHOP (1855) to today's freestanding and affiliated centers, now consolidating amid declining pediatric capacity.

Pediatric Intensive Care Units

A pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is a hospital unit providing continuous intensive care to critically ill infants and children, first established in Goteborg, Sweden, in 1955.

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Pedigree analysis

Pedigree analysis is a study design in human genetics and epidemiology that examines family trees to infer modes of inheritance, relatedness, and genetic contributions to disease.

PedNet study

PedNet study: research program of the European Paediatric Network for Haemophilia Management and its PedNet Haemophilia Registry, a prospective birth cohort of children with haemophilia A/B born from 2000, 35 centres in 19 countries, 2,993 children by 2025.

PEEP trial (NCT05386901)

PEEP trial, NCT05386901, a registered randomized controlled trial testing lung dynamic compliance-guided PEEP titration versus conventional PEEP to reduce postoperative pulmonary complications in children undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery with one-lung ventilation.

Peking Union Medical College Hospital

Peking Union Medical College Hospital (北京协和医院, PUMCH), founded by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1921 in Beijing, is a Class A tertiary comprehensive hospital, national center for complex and rare diseases, and China's top-ranked teaching hospital.

Peking University First Hospital

Peking University First Hospital (北京大学第一医院, Beida Hospital), founded 15 February 1915 in Beijing, is China's earliest founded hospital, a tertiary Grade A teaching hospital of Peking University known for urology, nephrology, dermatology, and pediatrics, with 2,480 beds and a Daxing campus opened in 2023.

Peking University People's Hospital

Peking University People's Hospital (北京大学人民医院), founded 1918 as China's first Chinese-financed general hospital, is a Peking University teaching hospital in Beijing with 2,600+ beds, two national research centers, and a Xiong'an branch.

Peking University Third Hospital

Peking University Third Hospital (北京大学第三医院, PUTH), founded 1958 in Beijing's Haidian District, is a National Health Commission-managed tertiary Grade-A hospital and Peking University clinical school, known for spine surgery, reproductive medicine (mainland China's first IVF baby), and sports medicine.

PELS study

PELS (Post-Cardiotomy Extra-Corporeal Life Support Study, NCT03857217) is a retrospective multicenter cohort study by Maastricht UMC+ of 2,163 adults on ECLS after cardiac surgery, 34 centers, 16 countries, 2000-2020; in-hospital mortality 60.5%, 10-year survival 65.9% among survivors.