Health Care

Patients' Rooms

Rooms occupied by one or more individuals during a stay in a health facility. The concept includes aspects of environment, design, care, or economics.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Rooms occupied by one or more individuals during a stay in a health facility. The concept includes aspects of environment, design, care, or economics.

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Synonyms

22 entry terms
  • Rooms, Patient
  • Patient Room
  • Patient Rooms
  • Patient's Rooms
  • Patients Rooms
  • Patients' Room
  • Room, Patient
  • Room, Patients'
  • Rooms, Patients'
  • Private Rooms
  • Semi-Private Rooms
  • Wards, General
  • General Ward
  • General Wards
  • Private Room
  • Room, Private
  • Room, Semi-Private
  • Rooms, Private
  • Rooms, Semi-Private
  • Semi Private Rooms
  • Semi-Private Room
  • Ward, General

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Aspects Covered

10 allowable subheadings

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

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Indexing Annotation

note entry term WARDS, GENERAL but special care wards = HOSPITAL UNITS or specific

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History Note

91(80); was see under HEALTH FACILITIES 1980-90

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Previous Indexing

  • Hospital Units (1974-1979)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Patients' Rooms. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010362. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010362
  2. Patients' Rooms. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70443092