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Therapeutics > Patient Care > Institutionalization
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services > Health Services > Patient Care > Institutionalization

Preferred term

Institutionalization  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Institutionalized Person
  • Institutionalized Persons
  • Person, Institutionalized
  • Persons, Institutionalized

Note

  • coord IM with type of institution (IM) if pertinent; institutionalization of mentally ill: consider also COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL

Scope note

  • The caring for individuals in institutions and their adaptation to routines characteristic of the institutional environment, and/or their loss of adaptation to life outside the institution.

History note

  • 79

In other languages

  • laitostuminen

    Finnish

  • hospitalisaatio
  • hospitalismi
  • hospitalismus
  • hospitalisoituminen
  • laitostumisoireyhtymä
  • laitostumissyndrooma
  • Institutionalisering

    Swedish

  • Institutionaliserade personer

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D007326

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