(a.) Filling with care or solicitude; exposing to concern, anxiety, or trouble; painful.
(a.) Taking care; giving good heed; watchful; cautious; provident; not indifferent, heedless, or reckless; -- often followed by of, for, or the infinitive; as, careful of money; careful to do right.
Example Sentences:
(1) The role of the family practitioner in antenatal care is discussed.
(2) Patients with normal echocardiogram and ECG on admission do not require intensive care monitoring.
(3) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
(4) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
(5) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
(6) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(7) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(8) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(9) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
(10) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
(11) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
(12) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
(13) Careful attention must be given to antibiotic choice as well as the dose and duration of therapy.
(14) However, used effectively, credit can help you to make the most of your money - so long as you are careful!
(15) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
(16) This article reviews the care of the chest-injured patient during the intensive care unit phase of his or her recovery.
(17) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
(18) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
(19) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
(20) Our results underline the importance of patient-related factors in MVR, and indicate that care is needed in comparing the quality of MVR from different institutions with respect to mortality and morbidity.
Fastidious
Definition:
(a.) Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fastidious microorganisms were accurately detected on C agar as well as on BA+MK.
(2) When urine, which has been collected by suprapubic bladder aspiration, is appropriately cultured, asymptomatic bacteriuria due to fastidious organisms can be detected quite commonly in apparently healthy pregnant women; Ureaplasma urealyticum and Gardnerella vaginalis can each be isolated from the bladder urine of 10 to 15% of subjects, other bacteria less frequently.
(3) We have developed a strategy to select clones isolating the other derivative avoiding fastidious and time consuming technics, mainly based on immunofluorescent screening using MIC 2 and MIC 5 antigenic markers and we have succeeded in isolating in a rodent context the two X;5 translocated derivative chromosomes of a female patient with Hunter syndrome.
(4) T cells are less fastidious: those that are affected by the mutations still recognize a number of substitutions.
(5) In this case, anaerobic culture of C tetani was unsuccessful, possibly because of the inherent difficulty of anaerobic transfer from an oral locus and the extreme fastidiousness of the organism.
(6) These fastidious viruses only grow in selected cell lines, 293 cells being the most commonly used.
(7) The additional data has facilitated an updated version of the physical map, and verified this random sequencing method as a useful mapping procedure as well as offering new insight into the physiological processes of this fastidious organism.
(8) This observation raises concern that more fastidious precautions are needed to isolate patients under these conditions of respiratory aerosol generation.
(9) Often topped by a single quote from article 3 of the universal declaration of human rights, “everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person”, the reports were dry in tone, heavy on numbers, and fastidiously situated within a sense of objective morals.
(10) He is famously fastidious, too, once refusing to give a fellow player a lift after training in case he scuffed the leather seats of the new Becksmobile.
(11) Comparison of the characteristics of TM-1 strains with other similar fastidious gram-negative organisms encountered in clinical laboratories indicates that TM-1 is a distinct species.
(12) ALLO, like L. pneumophila, are fastidious gram-negative rods that grow well on charcoal yeast extract (CYE) agar and produce ground glass colonies and browning of modified yeast extract agar.
(13) The hero of the story, says Bezos, "wants to do things a little bit differently" and paints his house purple while all his neighbours fastidiously keep theirs white.
(14) In these patients, culture of bladder aspiration urine for low counts and fastidious species is necessary to diagnose bacteriuria.
(15) We cultured bladder urine, obtained by aspiration, from symptomatic adults with equivocal findings on standard testing of midstream urine for low numbers of conventional uropathogens and fastidious bacteria.
(16) The role of organisms other than those of the aerobic bowel flora, especially fastidious organisms, in urinary tract infections is discussed in detail.
(17) For tests of fastidious bacteria, the MUG-plate was enriched with supplements containing heat-labile growth factors without influencing the reaction.
(18) The results suggest that predominant bacteria of human feces, in general, are not as nutritionally fastidious as rumen bacteria and indicate that media for counts or isolation containing large amounts of rich organic materials are neither necessary nor desirable when adequate anaerobic techniques are used.
(19) Erythromycin disk tests corresponded best with MICs determined in the fastidious broth medium.
(20) Extracellular mollicutes are fastidious, lipid-rich, and contain various potent cytotoxins.