• Personal well-being

    Protection of privacy by the staff - Quality of pain management - Hospital staffs reaction to emotional needs - Reaction to local concerns/symptoms - Inclusion in treatment decision - Staffs respect toward cultural, ethnic and religious needs - Introduction of the employees - Assurance of the safety of the medical treatment - Staffs hand hygiene/disinfection habits (if observed)

  • PET-CT

    Positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography. Nuclear medicine procedure that provides images of organs, the skeleton and tumours as well as metastases using a radioactive substance.

  • Phaeochromocytoma

    Tumour in the adrenal gland (the gland that produces adrenaline).

  • Phlebography

    X-ray of the veins using a contrast agent.

  • Pipac

    Pressure aerosol chemotherapy in the abdomen (pressurised intra-peritoneal aerosol chemotherapy).

  • Pitac

    Pressure aerosol chemotherapy in the chest (pressurised intra-thoracal aerosol chemotherapy).

  • Pituitary adenoma

    Benign tumour in the pituitary gland that can led to hormone imbalances and, as it increases in size, visual impairment.

  • Placenta

    Tissue that connects the foetus to the mother in the womb. Also known as afterbirth, because it is expelled from the body after the child is born.

  • Plaques

    Deposits of fat, calcium and connective tissue on the inside walls of blood vessels.

  • Pleura

    Delicate membrane comprising an inner layer (lining of the lungs) and an outer layer (lining of the ribs). Surrounds the lungs.

  • Plexus anaesthesia

    Regional anaesthesia of a neuroplexus prior to an operation.