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Therapeutics > Patient Care > Moving and Lifting Patients
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services > Health Services > Patient Care > Moving and Lifting Patients

Preferred term

Moving and Lifting Patients  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Lifting, Patient
  • Liftings, Patient
  • Moving, Patient
  • Movings, Patient
  • Patient Lifting
  • Patient Liftings
  • Patient Moving
  • Patient Moving and Lifting
  • Patient Movings
  • Patient Repositioning
  • Patient Repositionings
  • Repositioning, Patient
  • Repositionings, Patient

Note

  • do not confuse with PATIENT TRANSFER (interfacility or intrahospital transfer for administrative reasons with regard to special care or economics) or with TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS or with PATIENT POSITIONING

Scope note

  • Moving or repositioning patients within their beds, from bed to bed, bed to chair, or otherwise from one posture or surface to another.

History note

  • 2009

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URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D055805

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