Health Care

Patient Care Management

Generating, planning, organizing, and administering medical and nursing care and services for patients.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Generating, planning, organizing, and administering medical and nursing care and services for patients.

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Synonyms

2 entry terms
  • Care Management, Patient
  • Management, Patient Care

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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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Indexing Annotation

general or unspecified; prefer specifics

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History Note

98; use explode 1970-97

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Tree Number

  1. N04w.590

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Patient Care Management. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010346. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010346
  2. Patient Care Management. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50283963