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work·up

 (wûrk′ŭp′)
n.
A thorough medical examination for diagnostic purposes.
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workup

(ˈwɜːkˌʌp)
n
(Medicine) US a medical examination
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work•up

(ˈwɜrkˌʌp)

n.
a thorough medical diagnostic examination including laboratory tests and x-rays.
[1935–40]
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Translations

workup

1. n. preparación del paciente para la aplicación de un tratamiento;
2. obtención de los datos pertinentes a un caso.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

workup

n conjunto de exámenes que se realiza para determinar la causa de un síntoma o signo
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Sickle Cell, SCIDs, beta-Thalassemia, cancer); (c) shortened testing time for challenging antibody workups; (d) saving costs in laboratory testing, frequency of transfusions, and hospital bed stay; (e) saving in future testing costs as the genotype never changes (except for in bone marrow transplants); (f) bypassing common limitations in serology; (g) matching blood unit to patient at the genotype level to account for more blood group variability, and (h) improving transfusion outcomes for patients in need.
Having already set a Guinness world record for delivering a gene-based diagnosis in 19.5 hours, the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine now must show that such speedy results are possible for the estimated 80,000 American children in need of such workups each year.
"It's interesting that multimodal pain management has the side effect of putting you in a better position to practice high-value care, with less fever and fewer infectious disease workups," Dr.
Observe that without explicitly stating what are the costs associated with unnecessary workups or what are the net benefits associated with working up a case, these entities are implicitly contained in specification of [N.sub.max].
Qiagen plans to develop the biomarker into a diagnostic test for routine use in diagnostic workups.
Conducting workups in garrison proved challenging with maintaining and accounting for programmed items - such as individual body armor and protective clothing--maintaining weapons inventories, managing command funds and managing personnel expectations for multiple deployed sites.
They actually approached our OPO as to whether we could be a facilitating point in getting the payment for the workups of these donors.
The new edition contains all new cases, images, more on treatment and workups, and topics such as CT and MR angiography, multi-detector CT, and diagnostic and therapeutic image-guided procedures.
Consultations are more productive with the use of computerized referral guidelines and suggested pre-referral workups. Information access and sharing between caregivers has been upgraded.
The above call for cardiac workups among a certain active demographic stems from the well-founded belief that screening can greatly reduce incidents of SCD within the first two case categories.
FORMS.MD is a digital forms creation module developed to computerize handwritten tasks such as telephone messages, physician orders, patient workups and other areas that require a simple documentation procedure for recurring events.
The basic criteria is that the cartridge not give the reloader any more than the normal amount of heartburn in load workups.