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A treatment effort for people who are not responding to, or cannot tolerate the preferred, recommended treatments for a particular condition. In the context of HIV infection, drug treatments that are used or studied in individuals who have failed one or more HIV drug regimens. In this case, failed refers to the inability to achieve or sustain low viral load levels.
- Browse Related Terms: AIDS Service Organization (ASO), Antiretroviral, Co-morbidity, Community-based Organization (CBO), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), High-Risk Insurance Pool, Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART), Multiply Diagnosed, Opportunistic Infection (OI) or Opportunistic Condition, prophylaxis, Salvage Therapy
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Asexual reproductive stage of malaria parasites. In red blood cells, schizogony entails development of a single trophozoite into numerous merozoites. A similar process happens in infected liver cells.
- Browse Related Terms: Erythrocytic stage, Exoerythrocytic stage, Hepatocytes, hepatomegaly, Hypnozoite, Larvae, Merozoite, Protozoan, Schizogony, Schizont, Sporozoite, Suppressive treatment, Trophozoite
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A developmental form of the malaria parasite that contains many merozoites. Schizonts are seen in the liver-stage and blood-stage parasites.
- Browse Related Terms: Erythrocytic stage, Exoerythrocytic stage, Hepatocytes, hepatomegaly, Hypnozoite, Larvae, Merozoite, Protozoan, Schizogony, Schizont, Sporozoite, Suppressive treatment, Trophozoite
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Tests used to check, or screen, for disease when there are no symptoms. Recommended screening tests for colorectal cancer include the fecal occult blood test, flexible sigmoidoscopy, and colonoscopy. (When a test is performed to find out why symptoms exist, it is called a "diagnostic" test.)
- Browse Related Terms: colon, Fecal occult blood test (FOBT), Gastroenterologist, gastrointestinal tract, intestine, Rectum, Screening test, Stool, stool test
When a patient seeks the recommendation or differing point of view of a doctor or other clinician other than the one a patient has previously been seeing.
- Browse Related Terms: Clinic, Comparative Effectiveness, Elective Surgery, Electronic Health Record (EHR), Hospital, Medical Record, nursing home, Outpatient Surgery, Privileges, Readmission, Recovery, Second Opinion, Specialist, Treatment Option, Treatment Plan
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A program administered by the HRSA's Bureau of Primary Care, Office of Pharmacy Affairs established by Section 340B of the Veteran's Health Care Act of 1992, which limits the cost of drugs to Federal purchasers and to certain grantees of Federal agencies.
- Browse Related Terms: AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Chief Elected Official (CEO), Grantee, Health Insurance Continuity Program (HICP), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB), Housing Opportunities for People With AIDS (HOPWA), Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA), Lead Agency, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Public Health Service (PHS), Section 340B Drug Discount Program, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
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Drugs that suppress anxiety and promote sleep; the NSDUH classification includes benzodiazepines, barbiturates, and other types of CNS depressants.
- Browse Related Terms: barbiturate, Benzodiazepine, CNS Depressants, Narcolepsy, Polydrug Abuse, Prescription Drug Abuse, Psychotherapeutics, Respiratory Depression, Sedatives, Tranquilizers
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Geographic areas that were selected for inclusion in the SEER Program based on their ability to operate and maintain a high quality population-based cancer reporting system and for their epidemiologically significant population subgroups. See the SEER Registries for more information.
See the Common Terms page for the combinations of the SEER Registries commonly used in statistical analyses.
- Browse Related Terms: Annual Report to the Nation, Cancer Burden, Cancer Statistics Review (CSR), Delayed Reporting, Georeferenced Statistics, Incidence, Delay-Adjusted, Median Age at Diagnosis/Death, Reporting Delay, SEER Registries, Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program
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The net income you earn from your own trade or business. For example, any net income (profit) you earn from goods you sell or services you provide to others counts as self-employment income.
- Browse Related Terms: Alimony, Cancelled Debts, Capital Gains, dividend, Income Level, Investment Income, Net Rental Income, Rental or Royalty Income, Self-Employment Income
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Group health plans may be self-insured or fully insured. A plan is self-insured (or self-funded), when the employer assumes the financial risk for providing health care benefits to its employees. A plan is fully insured when all benefits are guaranteed under a contract of insurance that transfers that risk to an insurer.
- Browse Related Terms: COBRA, COBRA coverage, Employer Choice, Employee Choice, Employer Contribution, Employer or Union Retiree Plans, Flexible Benefits Plan, Fully Insured Job-based Plan, Group Health Plan, Health Reimbursement Account (HRA), Job-based Health Plan, Large Group Health Plan, Medicare Hospital Insurance Tax, Premium, Self-insured, Self-Insured Plan, Small Employer, Third Party Administrator (TPA), Wellness Programs, Worker's compensation
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Type of plan usually present in larger companies where the employer itself collects premiums from enrollees and takes on the responsibility of paying employees’ and dependents’ medical claims. These employers can contract for insurance services such as enrollment, claims processing, and provider networks with a third party administrator, or they can be self-administered.
- Browse Related Terms: COBRA, COBRA coverage, Employer Choice, Employee Choice, Employer Contribution, Employer or Union Retiree Plans, Flexible Benefits Plan, Fully Insured Job-based Plan, Group Health Plan, Health Reimbursement Account (HRA), Job-based Health Plan, Large Group Health Plan, Medicare Hospital Insurance Tax, Premium, Self-insured, Self-Insured Plan, Small Employer, Third Party Administrator (TPA), Wellness Programs, Worker's compensation
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An epidemiologic measure of how often people who do have some condition are correctly identified by a test as having that condition (“true positives”) instead of as a “false negative” test result.
- Browse Related Terms: Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc., Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), Hygiene, Infection Control Practitioner, Infection Control Professional, Infection Preventionist, protocol, sensitivity, Specificity, Strategy, Stringent, surveillance
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Morbid conditions following as a consequence of a disease.
- Browse Related Terms: Anopheles, Bacteria, Congenital malaria, etiology, immune system, infection, Parasite, pathogen, Resistance, Sequelae, Species, Vector, Vector competence
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The development of detectable antibodies to HIV in the blood as a result of infection. It normally takes several weeks to several months for antibodies to the virus to develop after HIV transmission. When antibodies to HIV appear in the blood, a person will test positive in the standard ELISA test for HIV.
- Browse Related Terms: Cultural Competence, Exposure Category, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR), Risk Factor or Risk Behavior, Seroconversion, Seroprevalence, Transmission Category, Viral Load, Western Blot
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The branch of science dealing with the measurement and characterization of antibodies and other immunological substances in body fluids, particularly serum.
- Browse Related Terms: anorexia, antibody, antigen, Coma, efficacy, Immunity, lymphocyte, Serology, Splenectomy, splenomegaly
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The number of persons in a defined population who test HIV-positive based on HIV testing of blood specimens. (Seroprevalence is often presented either as a percent of the total specimens tested or as a rate per 100,000 persons tested.)
- Browse Related Terms: Cultural Competence, Exposure Category, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR), Risk Factor or Risk Behavior, Seroconversion, Seroprevalence, Transmission Category, Viral Load, Western Blot
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A geographic area where a health insurance plan accepts members if it limits membership based on where people live. For plans that limit which doctors and hospitals you may use, it's also generally the area where you can get routine (non-emergency) services. The plan may disenroll you if you move out of the plan's service area.
- Browse Related Terms: Complication of Pregnancy, Complications of Pregnancy, Emergency Medical Transportation, Emergency Room Care, Emergency Services, Service Area
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All the service needs of all PLWH except for the need for primary health care for individuals who know their status but are not in care. Service gaps include additional need for primary health care for those already receiving primary medical care ("in care").
- Browse Related Terms: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Capacity, Core Services, Early Intervention Services (EIS), Family Centered Care, Health Care for the Homeless Health Center, Health Centers, Home and Community Based Care, Medicaid Spend-down, Part B, Part C, Part D, Part F (SPNS) (Special Projects of National Significance), Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act, Ryan White HIV/AIDS Act of 2009 (Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program), Service Gaps, Support Services, Unmet Need
An effect of a drug, chemical, or other medicine that is in addition to its intended effect, especially an effect that is harmful or unpleasant.
- Browse Related Terms: Generic Drugs, Medical Error, Pharmacist, Pharmacy, prescription, Risk, side effect, Treatment
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A flexible, lighted instrument with a tiny built-in camera that allows the doctor to view the lining of the rectum and lower portion of the colon.
- Browse Related Terms: Anus, Cancer, Colonoscope, Colonoscopy, colorectal, double-contrast barium enema, Flexible sigmoidoscopy, polyp, Sigmoidoscope
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