Health Care

Patient-Centered Care

Design of patient care wherein institutional resources and personnel are organized around patients rather than around specialized departments. (From Hospitals 1993 Feb 5;67(3):14)

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Design of patient care wherein institutional resources and personnel are organized around patients rather than around specialized departments. (From Hospitals 1993 Feb 5;67(3):14)

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18 entry terms
  • Person-Centered Care
  • Care, Patient-Centered
  • Care, Person-Centered
  • Cares, Person-Centered
  • Patient Centered Care
  • Person Centered Care
  • Person-Centered Cares
  • Medical Home
  • Nursing, Patient-Centered
  • Patient-Centered Nursing
  • Patient-Focused Care
  • Care, Patient-Focused
  • Home, Medical
  • Homes, Medical
  • Medical Homes
  • Nursing, Patient Centered
  • Patient Centered Nursing
  • Patient Focused Care

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

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Indexing Annotation

institutional & administrative management: do not confuse with PATIENT CARE PLANNING involving individual patient

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95

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  1. N04w.590.233.727w.407

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Patient-Centered Care. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018802. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018802
  2. Patient-Centered Care. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7144952