Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

warehoused patients

Spanish translation:

pacientes en espera de nuevos tratamientos/medicamentos

Added to glossary by Gabriela Galtero
May 6, 2015 22:03
9 yrs ago
English term

warehoused patients

English to Spanish Medical Medical: Health Care Hepatitis diagnostic
Ejemplos de contexto:
Our research shows that a significant share of the population diagnosed with HCV is currently not drug treated ("warehoused").
We asked HCV experts what share of all HCV viral load tests are not strictly linked to an ongoing prescribed HCV drug treatment course (for example to confirm positive HCV antibody results as part of initial diagnosis, monitoring the status of untreated (warehoused) patients waiting for therapy, or tests for purposes of research)

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pacientes en espera de nuevos tratamientos/medicamentos

Most Docs Tell Their Hep C Patients: Wait for New Drugs

Three out of five physicians caring for people with hepatitis C virus (HCV) have begun “warehousing” patients in expectation of newer therapies likely to hit the market soon. The BioTrends Research Group, which is a syndicated market research group that sells its reports to pharmaceutical companies, conducted a poll of a random sample of 50 gastroenterologists, 25 hepatologists and 25 infectious disease specialists, and came up with these findings.

http://guardianlv.com/2014/06/hepatitis-c-warehousing-those-...
Ed, like so many patients, was in an endless holding pattern, being warehoused by his doctor, yet forced to live with a death sentence and not knowing when or if there would be a successful hepatitis C treatment for him. The doctors call this holding pattern patient warehousing. There are thousands of patients with this deadly disease across the country waiting for the various trials to be completed and a new combination of medications that will work for their particular case.
Read more at http://guardianlv.com/2014/06/hepatitis-c-warehousing-those-...
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Reference:

To warehouse

To institutionalize (a person) in usually deficient housing and in conditions in which medical, educational, psychiatric, and social services are below par or absent.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.

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to confine (the mentally ill, the aged, etc.) in large custodial institutions.

Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010
Example sentence:

"has felt forced to warehouse hundreds of children in temporary shelters" (Justine Wise Polier)

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