clinician
clinician
Definition
cli·ni·cian (kli nis̸h′ən, klə-)
noun
an expert in or practitioner of clinical medicine, psychology, etc.
clinician
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- practice: Cognitive Behavior Therapy: A guide for the practicing clinician.
- refer: Medical staff always keep referring clinicians informed of their patient's progress by sending reports at least every four weeks.
- engage: These workshops proved useful in engaging clinicians in service improvement.
- enable: This was rendered at 5 frames per second, which would enable a clinician to interactively navigate the virtual colon on a desktop PC.
- assist: The Primary Care Trust is fully committed to this and in recognition recruited a clinical audit analyst in 2004 to assist clinicians.
- involve: Hospital clinicians involved New mechanisms to share best practice.
Adjective modifier
- Lead: The initiative has received Trust-wide support, with active involvement from the Chief Executive, Divisional Managers and Lead Clinicians.
- senior: Authority to stand up to and to persuade senior clinicians to change.
- experienced: In the hands of experienced clinicians, shock wave therapy may well prove to be a valuable tool in dealing with chronic tendon pain.
- Senior: All referrals are categorized by a Senior Physiotherapy Clinician based on the information on the referral form.
- busy: Progress will depend critically on the extent to which you are able to get the message over to busy clinicians.
- lead: He is also lead clinician for upper gastrointestinal cancer.
Modifies a noun
- scientist: Why is the clinician scientist becoming an extinct species?
- involvement: Clinician involvement in this process is essential if meaningful data are to be assembled.
Noun used with modifier
- frontline: Developed in collaboration with frontline clinicians, Tiara9 accurately reflects clinical workflow patterns.
- front-line: Crucially, these decisions are being taken without the input of front-line clinicians, particularly consultants.
- NHS: Online access to patient records and support on best clinical practice, for all NHS clinicians.
- hospital: Hospital clinicians were asked to hand parents a form asking them to agree to disclose their child's records for audit.
- care: Primary care clinicians are best placed to do this.
- specialist: Our strategy is to focus on drugs prescribed by specialist clinicians, a market we can service effectively with our planned specialist sales force.
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