ambulatory care

Preferred Label : ambulatory care;

MeSH definition : 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.;

MeSH synonym : care, outpatient; care, ambulatory; outpatient care;

Wikipedia automatic translation : Outpatient department;

MeSH Hyperonym : health services, outpatient; Health Service, Outpatient; Outpatient Health Service; Service, Outpatient Health; Outpatient Health Services; Outpatient Services; Outpatient Service; Service, Outpatient; Services, Outpatient; Services, Outpatient Health;

MeSH hyponym : urgent care; Care, Urgent; Cares, Urgent; Urgent Cares;

Related MeSH term : clinic visits; Clinic Visit; Visit, Clinic; Visits, Clinic;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outpatient department;

Details

Origin ID

D000553;

UMLS CUI

C0002423;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- organization & administration [MeSH Qualifier]
- psychology [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Ambulance-based care (environment) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Ambulatory Care [DeCS]
- Cast care (regime/therapy) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Inpatient care (regime/therapy) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Outpatient care [HPMULTI term]
- Tracheostomy care (regime/therapy) [SNOMED CT concept]
- ambulatory care [CISMeF Metaterm]
- outpatient services [ICPS Descriptor]
- outpatient services [ICPS Descriptor]
Metaterm(s)
- ambulatory care [CISMeF Metaterm]
Record concept(s)
- ambulatory care [MeSH concept]
- clinic visits [MeSH concept]
- health services, outpatient [MeSH concept]
- urgent care [MeSH concept]
See also
- outpatient clinics, hospital [MeSH Descriptor]
- outpatients [MeSH Descriptor]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- Day Care, Medical [MeSH Descriptor]
- ambulatory care facilities [MeSH Descriptor]
- ambulatory care information systems [MeSH Descriptor]
- ambulatory surgical procedures [MeSH Descriptor]
- monitoring, ambulatory [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Health Care Activity [UMLS semantic type]

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