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U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration
行业: Government; Health care
Number of terms: 396
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HRSA is the primary U.S. Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable.
A group of people eligible to donate an organ.
Industry:Health care
A group of tiny organisms capable of growing and copying themselves while living within cells of the body.
Industry:Health care
A health insurance plan with an established network of healthcare providers. It provides maximum benefit coverage when services are obtained from provider within the network. Reduced benefits generally apply for using health care providers outside of the network.
Industry:Health care
A heartbeat caused by the ventricles that is so rapid the heart does not fill adequately with blood, and less blood is able to pump through the body.
Industry:Health care
A hereditary condition that results in the formation of cysts throughout the kidneys. Patients with PKD often require kidney transplantation.
Industry:Health care
A herpes virus that usually causes a mild infection. Important because it can become deadly in an immunocompromised transplant recipient. Deceased donors are screened for the presence of CMV antibodies.
Industry:Health care
A history of drug therapy provided to a patient.
Industry:Health care
A hospital that performs transplants, including qualifying patients for transplant, registering patients on the national waiting list, performing transplant surgery and providing care before and after transplant.
Industry:Health care
A kidney donated for transplantation by a donor who has suffered brain death (i.e., is not a donor after cardiac death) and who is not an expanded criteria kidney donor. See Donor After Cardiac Death and Expanded Criteria Donor Kidney.
Industry:Health care
A law or group of laws proposed or enacted that have the force or authority of a state or Federal government, or other organization. For transplant-related legislation, see Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA), OPTN Final Rule, First Person Consent Legislation, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA), Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, Uniform Brain Death Act, Uniform Determination of Death Act.
Industry:Health care