What's the difference between management and prophylaxis?

Management


Definition:

  • (v.) The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs.
  • (v.) Business dealing; negotiation; arrangement.
  • (v.) Judicious use of means to accomplish an end; conduct directed by art or address; skillful treatment; cunning practice; -- often in a bad sense.
  • (v.) The collective body of those who manage or direct any enterprise or interest; the board of managers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
  • (2) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
  • (3) However it is important to recognize these cysts so that correct surgical management is offered to the patient.
  • (4) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
  • (5) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
  • (6) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (7) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
  • (8) 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.
  • (9) The role of magnetic resonance imaging is also discussed, as is the pathophysiology, management, and prognosis in the elderly patient.
  • (10) Diagnostic work-up and management of intracranial arachnoid cysts are still controversial.
  • (11) Postpartum management is directed toward decreasing vasospasm and central nervous system irritability and maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
  • (12) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
  • (13) It isn't share ownership but the way people are managed that's critical.
  • (14) "We do not think the Astra management have done a good job on behalf of shareholders.
  • (15) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
  • (16) BT Sport's marketing manager, Alfredo Garicoche, is more effusive still: "We're not thinking for the next two or three years, we're thinking for the next 20 or 30 years and even longer.
  • (17) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
  • (18) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
  • (19) He was the first to win as a captain and a manager.
  • (20) Based upon our clinical experience and this review of the literature, a suggested management protocol is presented.

Prophylaxis


Definition:

  • (n.) The art of preserving from, or of preventing, disease; the observance of the rules necessary for the preservation of health; preservative or preventive treatment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Early diagnosis (fever, increase of leucocytes and toxic signs in differential blood count, thrombocythemia, decrease of anorganic phosphate), prophylaxis, and treatment are discussed.
  • (2) Attention is drawn to the desirability of differentiating between supra- and sub-gingival calculus in the CPITN scoring system and to the excessive treatment requirements that arise from classifying everyone with calculus as requiring prophylaxis and scaling.
  • (3) This combination has been recommended as prophylaxis as well.
  • (4) This work supports the value of metronidazole but suggests that a single-dose regimen is adequate for prophylaxis.
  • (5) Isolates from patients who failed to clear the organism from their stools or who had cholera soon after tetracycline prophylaxis had increased minimum inhibitory concentrations of the drug.
  • (6) The ideal prophylaxis should compensate for the undesired effects of an operation or injury on the coagulation system, without subjecting the patient to the danger of elevated tendency to bleed.
  • (7) It is now known from several clinical studies that the mean pH values of gastric fluid under sucralfate prophylaxis are considerably lower than under conventional stress ulcer prophylaxis.
  • (8) It was concluded that combined prophylaxis with HBIG and hepatitis-B vaccine immediately after birth is the best method for prevention of HBV perinatal transmission from HBeAg positive carrier mothers to their infants.
  • (9) A thorough dental prophylaxis before acid-etching of enamel is often recommended.
  • (10) We think that carotid endarterectomy carries an even better prophylaxis for the brain as a whole than had been thought.
  • (11) The marginal cost effectiveness of erythromycin prophylaxis compared to no prophylaxis is $12,900 per quality-adjusted year of life saved.
  • (12) A vaccine, which was prepared from one of the strains isolated, was used in addition to antibiotic prophylaxis to control the enzootic disease.
  • (13) A complex scheme of prophylaxis of exacerbation and progression of chronic bronchopulmonary diseases in children was developed.
  • (14) Ventriculometry in the context of a wider diagnostico-therapeutic regime on the intensive care unit was found to be conducive to target-oriented brain pressure prophylaxis and therapy.
  • (15) Duration of prophylaxis: Antimicrobial agents must be present in the tissues throughout the operation.
  • (16) All nine injuries had antibiotic prophylaxis before and after nail removal.
  • (17) Prophylaxis in urological surgery is usually taken to mean antibacterial agents.
  • (18) A policy of selective antibiotic prophylaxis is justified and in high risk patients with in-dwelling catheters single dose prophylaxis is highly effective.
  • (19) The observed degree of efficacy of amoxicillin prophylaxis and of tympanostomy tube insertion must be viewed in light of the fact that study subjects proved not to have been at as high risk for acute otitis media as had been anticipated and in view of the differential attrition rates.
  • (20) These observations emphasize the need for retargeting prevention of caries in order to provide additional preventive treatment to the high incidence groups while the routine prophylaxis given to the other groups may be decreased.