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Patient Care

Medical Definition: The services rendered by members of the health profession and non-professionals under their supervision for the benefit of the patient. (From Dorland, 28th ed, p269)
Guide Notes: by professional & non-professional; GEN or unspecified; prefer specifics; not a synonym for NURSING CARE: nursing care is only one type of patient care
Previously Indexed: Nursing Care (1966-1997),Patient Care Planning (1993-1997)
Patient Care Categories.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Aftercare - The care and treatment of a convalescent patient, especially that of a patient after surgery.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Ambulatory Care - Health care services provided to patients on an ambulatory basis, rather than by admission to a hospital or other health care facility. The services may be a part of a hospital, augmenting its inpatient services, or may be provided at a free-standing facility.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Critical Care - Health care provided to a critically ill patient during a medical emergency or crisis.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Custodial Care - Board, room, and other personal assistance services generally provided on a long term basis. It excludes regular medical care.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Day Care - Institutional health care of patients during the day. The patients return home at night.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Episode of Care - An interval of care by a health care facility or provider for a specific medical problem or condition. It may be continuous or it may consist of a series of intervals marked by one or more brief separations from care, and can also identify the sequence of care (e.g., emergency, inpatient, outpatient), thus serving as one measure of health care provided.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Foster Home Care - Private families who care for neglected children or patients unable to care for themselves.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Hospitalization - The confinement of a patient in a hospital.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Institutionalization - The caring for individuals in institutions and their adaptation to routines characteristic of the institutional environment, and/or their loss of adaptation to life outside the institution.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Life Support Care - Care provided patients requiring extraordinary therapeutic measures in order to sustain and prolong life.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Long-Term Care - Care over an extended period, usually for a chronic condition or disability, requiring periodic, intermittent, or continuous care.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Night Care - Institutional night care of patients.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Nursing Care - Care given to patients by nursing service personnel.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Palliative Care - Care alleviating symptoms without curing the underlying disease. (Stedman, 25th ed)
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Perinatal Care - The care of a fetus or newborn given before, during, and after delivery from the 28th week of gestation through the 7th day after delivery.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Perioperative Care - Interventions to provide care prior to, during, and immediately after surgery.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Postnatal Care - The care provided a woman following the birth of a child.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Preconception Care - An organized and comprehensive program of health care that identifies and reduces a woman's reproductive risks before conception through risk assessment, health promotion, and interventions. Preconception care programs may be designed to include the male partner in providing counseling and educational information in preparation for fatherhood, such as genetic counseling and testing, financial and family planning, etc. This concept is different from PRENATAL CARE, which occurs during pregnancy.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Prenatal Care - Care provided the pregnant woman in order to prevent complications, and decrease the incidence of maternal and prenatal mortality.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Preoperative Care - Care given during the period prior to undergoing surgery when psychological and physical preparations are made according to the special needs of the individual patient. This period spans the time between admission to the hospital to the time the surgery begins. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Subacute Care - Medical and skilled nursing services provided to patients who are not in an acute phase of an illness but who require a level of care higher than that provided in a long-term care setting. (JCAHO, Lexikon, 1994)
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Terminal Care - Medical and nursing care of patients in the terminal stage of an illness.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Withholding Treatment - Withholding or withdrawal of a particular treatment or treatments, often (but not necessarily) life-prolonging treatment, from a patient or from a research subject as part of a research protocol. The concept is differentiated from REFUSAL TO TREAT, where the emphasis is on the health professional's or health facility's refusal to treat a patient or group of patients when the patient or the patient's representative requests treatment. Withholding of life-prolonging treatment is usually indexed only with EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE, unless the distinction between withholding and withdrawing treatment, or the issue of withholding palliative rather than curative treatment, is discussed.

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