Health Care

Healthcare Time Out

A period of time away from normal workflow taken to ensure key procedural details have been reviewed for better PATIENT SAFETY and help prevent MEDICAL ERRORS.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

A period of time away from normal workflow taken to ensure key procedural details have been reviewed for better PATIENT SAFETY and help prevent MEDICAL ERRORS.

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Synonyms

15 entry terms
  • Time Out, Healthcare
  • Timeout, Healthcare
  • Healthcare Time Outs
  • Healthcare Timeout
  • Healthcare Timeouts
  • Time Outs, Healthcare
  • Timeouts, Healthcare
  • Surgical Time Out
  • Surgical Timeout
  • Surgical Time Outs
  • Surgical Timeouts
  • Time Out, Surgical
  • Time Outs, Surgical
  • Timeout, Surgical
  • Timeouts, Surgical

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Aspects Covered

10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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History Note

2016

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Tree Numbers

  1. N04w.761w.700.635
  2. N05.700.739

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Healthcare Time Out. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000067494. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000067494
  2. Healthcare Time Out. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70349187