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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Patoladi ghrta
Patoladi ghrta (Paṭolādi ghṛta) is an Ayurvedic medicated ghee, Formulary of India AFI000277, 12 g dose, 19 herbs cooked in cow ghee; used for skin disease, wounds, and Pitta eye disorders.
Patoladi kvatha curna
Patoladi kvatha curna (पटोलादि क्वाथ, Paṭolādi kvātha cūrṇa) is an Ayurvedic decoction powder, AFI000340, dosed 48 g; six bitter herbs around patola, used for skin disorders, fever, jaundice, and amlapitta.
Patolamuladi kvatha curna (patolamiladi kvatha curna)
Patolamuladi kvatha curna (Paṭolamūlādi kvātha cūrṇa), also called Patolamooladi kashayam, is an Ayurvedic decoction powder, AFI 4:18 from Ashtanga Hridaya, with patola, triphala, colocynth, trayamana, katuki, and ginger, dosed at 48 g with honey for skin disease, fever, and jaundice.
Patric Gagne
Patric Gagne, born Patricia Gagne, is an American writer and former therapist known for Sociopath: A Memoir, her 2024 New York Times bestselling account of living as a self-described sociopath.
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.
Patritumab
Patritumab (AMG 888, U3-1287) is a fully human IgG1 monoclonal antibody against HER3 (ERBB3) that blocks ligand binding and internalizes the receptor; its naked-antibody phase 3 program was halted, and it now serves as the backbone of the ADC patritumab deruxtecan (HER3-DXd).
PATS trial
PATS (Pediatric Adenotonsillectomy Trial for Snoring), NCT02562040, was an NHLBI-funded US randomized trial of 459 children aged 3-12.9 with mild sleep-disordered breathing comparing adenotonsillectomy with watchful waiting; cognition did not differ, but behavior, sleep, blood pressure, and progression improved.
Pattern hair loss
Pattern hair loss, or androgenetic alopecia, male pattern baldness / female pattern hair loss, is a common genetically and androgen (DHT) driven follicle miniaturization disorder affecting up to 80% of men and 50% of women, treated with minoxidil and finasteride.
Patterned and diffuse alopecia areata
Patterned and diffuse alopecia areata are non-patchy forms of the autoimmune hair loss alopecia areata, covering the band-like ophiasis and sisaipho patterns and the diffuse variants that thin across the scalp.
Patterson-Stevenson-Fontaine syndrome
Patterson-Stevenson-Fontaine syndrome (split foot deformity with mandibulofacial dysostosis, OMIM 183700) is a very rare autosomal dominant acrofacial dysostosis: retrognathism, cleft palate, ear anomalies, split foot, toe syndactyly; fewer than ten patients described.
Patulous Eustachian tube
Patulous Eustachian tube (tuba aperta, ICD-10 H69.0): an abnormally open Eustachian tube causing autophony and eardrum movement with breathing; linked to weight loss, treated by plug or shim surgery.
Patupilone
Patupilone (epothilone B, EPO906) is a Novartis microtubule-stabilizing macrolide from Sorangium cellulosum; P-gp-independent, diarrhea-limited, it failed its phase III ovarian cancer trial versus liposomal doxorubicin and was discontinued.
Pauci-immune glomerulonephritis
Pauci-immune glomerulonephritis (PIGN), also called seronegative PIGN when ANCA-negative, is necrotizing crescentic GN with few immune deposits, usually ANCA-associated vasculitis; ANCA-negative cases are younger, more renal-limited, with worse kidney outcomes.
Paucibacillary leprosy
Paucibacillary (PB) leprosy, also called paucibacillary Hansen disease, is the low-bacterial-load form of leprosy: 1-5 skin lesions, smear negative, treated with 6 months of multidrug therapy, versus multibacillary leprosy.
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 Alexander (polio survivor)
Paul Richard Alexander (1946–2024), 'the man in the iron lung', was a Texas lawyer paralyzed by polio in 1952 at age 6 who used an iron lung for 73 years, a Guinness World Record, practiced law, and wrote a memoir.
Paul C. Brucker
Paul C. Brucker (circa 1931 to 2017) was an American family physician and academic who founded Jefferson's Department of Family Medicine in 1973 and led Thomas Jefferson University from 1990 to 2004.
Paul Citron
Paul Citron is an American medical device engineer who spent 32 years at Medtronic, retiring in 2003, and designed a pacemaker lead received by an estimated 10 million patients.
Paul F. Griner
Paul F. Griner (1933–2024) was an American internist and medical educator at the University of Rochester who led Strong Memorial Hospital and served as president of the American College of Physicians.
Paul G. Yock
Paul G. Yock is an American interventional cardiologist and bioengineer at Stanford University who invented intravascular ultrasound and the Rapid Exchange stenting system, and founded Stanford Biodesign.