intervention (redirected from intervene)

intervention /in·ter·ven·tion/ (-ven´shun)

1. the act or fact of interfering so as to modify.

2. any measure whose purpose is to improve health or alter the course of disease.

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crisis intervention 

1. an immediate, short-term, psychotherapeutic approach, the goal of which is to help resolve a personal crisis within the individual's immediate environment.

2. the procedures involved in responding to an emergency.

percutaneous coronary intervention  (PCI) the management of coronary artery occlusion by any of various catheter-based techniques, such as percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, atherectomy, excimer laser angioplasty, and implantation of coronary stents and related devices.

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in·ter·ven·tion (ntr-vnshn)

n.

Interference so as to modify a process or situation.

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inter·vene (ntr-vn) v.

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intervention,

n an intervention designed to improve the health of a patient or change the conditions which have negative impact on the well-being of the patient.

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intervention

the act of intervening in a disease or epidemiological sequence.

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intervention strategy

in the sequence of examination, diagnosis, treatment and control it is necessary, especially in herd problems, to design a strategy for intervening, either to test the hypothesis or to plan the treatment and control sequence which may require a change in the environment, the feeding regime or the breeding practices; for most efficient use of resources the intervention may need detailed planning.

intervention study

testing an hypothesized epidemiological cause-effect relationship by intervening in a population and modifying a supposed causal factor and measuring the effect of the change.