Concept information
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services
Health Services
Patient Care
Continuity of Patient Care
Preferred term
Patient Transfer
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Dumping, Patient
- Patient Dumping
- Patient Transition
- Patient Transitions
- Patient Turfing
- Patient Turfings
- Transition, Patient
- Transitions, Patient
- Turfing, Patient
- Turfings, Patient
Note
- do not confuse with TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS or MOVING AND LIFTING PATIENTS
Scope note
- Interfacility or intrahospital transfer of patients. Intrahospital transfer is usually to obtain a specific kind of care and interfacility transfer is usually for economic reasons as well as for the type of care provided.
History note
- 87
In other languages
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Finnish
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potilaan siirto
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potilaan siirtäminen
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010360
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