title: How do we know?
abstract: Home care personnel working with physicians meet with terms every day that may not be clear to them. In an effort to preclude misinterpretations, mistakes, or time expended trying to clarify instructions, this article covers some of the terminology that might occur in physician orders, on records, or in the medical literature.
authors: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
authors: T E
authors: TE
authors: Finucane
mesh_terms: D015510:Clinical Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D010919:Placebos; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D010919:Placebos