According to Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 30th ed, resolve is defined as: "to restore to the normal state after some pathologic process."
So in this illustration, resolved means that the pathologic process has been stopped, and the normal state has returned.
Improved means that the pathologic process is no longer progressing and the condition has moved more toward the normal state, but is not there yet (or may never get there).
Reduction is used in its usual sense here: the amount by which something is lessened. In the illustration, it is used for a lessening of a risk (of cardiovascular disease) and of a rate (of mortality).
One thing that is not clear, based on the information provided in your question, is what the percentages are actually percentages of, and why some of them list ranges. (Perhaps the range is because the illustrator is citing data from multiple studies). I would guess that most of the conditions listed as resolved or improved are a percentage of the people who had the condition, who then lost fat and no longer have the condition or the condition is improved. For example, losing fat resolved the obstructive sleep apnea in 74% to 98% of people who had sleep apnea before losing fat. (The flip side is that losing fat did not resolve the apnea in 2% to 26% of people.)
I do not believe that the definition for operator dependent that you provided is correct, not in a modern medical context.
Operator dependent refers to variation in results due to medical technologists use of diagnostic equipment. It is important for the clinician to be aware of such "operator dependent" variation. It helps ascertain whether deviation from an expected ("normal" or baseline) result may be etiological (and thus due to a disease process), versus deviation that is caused by the technique used by the diagnostic technician.
Medical imaging, EEG's and EKG's are subject to operator dependent results. The abstract of this paper describes operator dependent variability in diagnostic imagery of the heart:
The purpose of this study was to evaluate variability in the
quantification of myocardial perfusion images obtained by a group of
experienced operators using two widely used programs... The large
variability... may influence the clinical interpretation and cause false
conclusions.
In the prior example, the operator was a skilled technician. The operators may be physicians. In this example, the operators are radiologists (all are M.D.'s):
We sought to assess the reproducibility of size measurements of small
lung nodules examined with [tomography]... Three radiologists measured volume and
diameter of 20 phantom nodules and 37 lung nodules... Operator-dependent variability
of size measurements of small nodules is not negligible and should be considered in
lung cancer-screening studies.
Connotation of improper technique or lack of skill is not necessarily associated with operator-dependent results. Sometimes it is, as well as the usability design of the testing device itself. This study compared the effectiveness of mammography versus ultrasound and MRI, and found that ultrasound had the same rate of false negatives due to operator-dependent error as the other two methods.
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ER and ED are the same thing when considered as a place to receive emergency medical care. Of course the Emergency Department at a hospital is likely to have a number of individual Emergency Rooms or Bays.
emergency room
emergency department
My health insurance card lists "in-network member responsibilities" (fees) for:
Urgent Care facilities are usually separate facilities, buildings, etc. often in several locations in a community. Urgent in this case means the patient thinks the problem requires immediate attention but is not serious enough to require an ED/ER or hospital admission. However, someone might need to be transported from an Urgent Care facility to an ER/ED for treatment and/or admitted to a hospital.