Structured Summary
Abstract
The services rendered by members of the health profession and non-professionals under their supervision.
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Classification
Broader headings
Narrower headings
- Ambulatory Care
- Bloodless Medical and Surgical Procedures
- Continuity of Patient Care
- Critical Care
- Custodial Care
- Delayed Diagnosis
- Duration of Therapy
- Emergency Room Visits
- Episode of Care
- Foster Home Care
- Hospitalization
- Institutionalization
- Life Support Care
- Long-Term Care
- Medical Day Care
- Moving and Lifting Patients
- Night Care
- Nursing Care
- Palliative Care
- Patient Comfort
- Patient Positioning
- Perinatal Care
- Perioperative Care
- Perioperative Period
- Preconception Care
- Prenatal Care
- Shared Medical Appointments
- Subacute Care
- Terminal Care
- Time-to-Treatment
- Transitional Care
- Withholding Treatment
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Synonyms
5 entry terms
- Care, Patient
- Informal care
- Informal cares
- care, Informal
- cares, Informal
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Aspects Covered
13 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings adverse effects, classification, economics, ethics, history, instrumentation, methods, mortality, psychology, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends, veterinary.
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Indexing Annotation
general or unspecified; prefer specifics; not a synonym for NURSING CARE: nursing care is only one type of patient care
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History Note
98; use explode 1975-97
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Previous Indexing
- Nursing Care (1966-1997)
- Patient Care Planning (1993-1997)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Patient Care. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005791. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005791
- Patient Care. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activities_of_daily_living_assistance
- Patient Care. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22906178