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2. Height and Weight Chart Use - Healthline

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   Body mass index (BMI) A BMI chart is among the most common height and weight charts used by healthcare providers. Medical professionals use this tool for people as young as age 2. The primary ...

3. Epic Systems - Wikipedia

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   Number of employees. 13,000 (2023) [3] Website. www .epic .com. Epic Systems Corporation, or Epic, is an American privately held healthcare software company. According to the company, hospitals that use its software held medical records of 78% of patients in the United States and over 3% of patients worldwide in 2022.

4. Snellen chart - Wikipedia

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   Snellen chart is used to estimate visual acuity (last three rows are 20/15, 20/13 and 20/10) A Snellen chart is an eye chart that can be used to measure visual acuity. Snellen charts are named after the Dutch ophthalmologist Herman Snellen who developed the chart in 1862 as a measurement tool for the acuity formula developed by his professor ...

5. Early warning score - Wikipedia

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   An early warning score ( EWS) is a guide used by medical services to quickly determine the degree of illness of a patient. It is based on the vital signs ( respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, temperature, blood pressure, pulse / heart rate, AVPU response ). [1] Scores were developed in the late 1990s when studies showed that in-hospital ...

6. Body surface area - Wikipedia

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   Body surface area. In physiology and medicine, the body surface area ( BSA) is the measured or calculated surface area of a human body. For many clinical purposes, BSA is a better indicator of metabolic mass than body weight because it is less affected by abnormal adipose mass. Nevertheless, there have been several important critiques of the ...

7. How To Get a Medical Marijuana Card in Your State - WebMD

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   Medical marijuana is a common treatment for people with chronic pain or other conditions. While marijuana use remains illegal on the federal level, 29 states and Washington D.C. presently allow ...