Home Health Aid

Preferred Label : Home Health Aid;

NCIt definition : A person trained to for provide personal patient care and related services for ill or disabled patients, and elderly in home or home-like settings to get patients needs met. The tasks performed by home health aide include personal care, homemaking, communications, working with the patient occupational therapist, physical therapist and other caregivers to assure that the patients are reaching their best physical, mental and social well-being.;

Details

Origin ID

C53429;

UMLS CUI

C1708376;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Home health aide (occupation) [SNOMED CT concept]
- home health aide [Artificial nutrition thesaurus concept]
- home health aides [MeSH Descriptor]
- home health aides [MeSH concept]
- homemaker services [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Occupation or Discipline [UMLS semantic type]
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- FDA Individual Case Safety Report Terminology [NCIt concept]
- Occupation ICSR Terminology [NCIt concept]
- Operator of Medical Device ICSR Terminology [NCIt concept]

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