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It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. ( August 2024 ) HCPCS Level II codes are alphanumeric medical procedure codes , primarily for non-physician services such as ambulance services and prosthetic devices. [ 1 ]
A disease-modifying treatment, disease-modifying drug, or disease-modifying therapy is a treatment that delays, slows or reverses the progression of a disease by targeting its underlying cause. [1] They are distinguished from symptomatic treatments that treat the symptoms of a disease but do not address its underlying cause.
Behavior modification is a treatment approach that uses respondent and operant conditioning to change behavior. Based on methodological behaviorism, [1] overt behavior is modified with (antecedent) stimulus control and consequences, including positive and negative reinforcement contingencies to increase desirable behavior, as well as positive and negative punishment, and extinction to reduce ...
Biological response modifiers (BRMs) are substances that modify immune responses. They can be endogenous (produced naturally within the body) or exogenous (as pharmaceutical drugs ), and they can either enhance an immune response or suppress it .
The Government Accountability Office have concluded through an independent study that the therapy caps are not meeting the needs of patients. [7]The Study and Report on Outpatient Therapy Utilization by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released in September 2002 concluded that older patients require more therapy than what the cap allowed: "patients who are female, older ...
In bipolar disorder, specifiers describe the nature of a current episode, such as the levels of anxiety, melancholia, and psychosis, and whether moods are congruent with behavior or incongruent. [3]
Adjuvant therapy, also known as adjunct therapy, adjuvant care, or augmentation therapy, is a therapy that is given in addition to the primary or initial therapy to maximize its effectiveness. The surgeries and complex treatment regimens used in cancer therapy have led the term to be used mainly to describe adjuvant cancer treatments.
Maintenance therapy is a medical therapy that is designed to help a primary treatment succeed. [1] For example, maintenance chemotherapy may be given to people who have a cancer in remission in an attempt to prevent a relapse. [ 2 ]