Hiatal hernia. A hiatal hernia occurs when the upper part of your stomach bulges through your diaphragm into your chest cavity. A hiatal hernia occurs when the upper part of your stomach bulges through the large muscle separating your abdomen and chest (diaphragm). Your diaphragm has a small opening (hiatus) through which your food tube (esophagus) passes before connecting to your stomach. In a hiatal hernia, the stomach pushes up through that opening and into your chest.
Patient Health Questionnaire. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) is a multiple-choice self-report inventory copyrighted by Pfizer Inc, that is used as a screening and diagnostic tool for mental health disorders of depression, anxiety, alcohol, eating, and somatoform.
Quality measures. Home Health Compare shows how often each home health agency used best practices when caring for its patients and whether patients improved in certain important areas of care. These indicators of home health care quality are also known as 'quality measures.'. The quality measures are divided into these categories: 1  Managing daily activities. 2  Managing pain and treating symptoms. 3  Treating wounds and preventing pressure sores (bed sores).