| ICCU | intensive coronary care unit; intermediate coronary care unit |
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| ICF | immunodeficiency-centromeric instability-facial anomalies [syndrome]; indirect centrifugal flotation... |
| MCO | managed care organization; medical care organization; multicystic ovary |
| MIC | maternal and infant care; medical intensive care; Medical Interfraternity Conference; microscopy; mi... |
| MICU | medical intensive care unit; mobile intensive care unit |
| home care services, hospital-based | Hospital-sponsored provision of health services, such as nursing, therapy, and health-related homemaker or social services, in the patient's home. (hospital administration terminology, 2d ed) (12 Dec 1998) |
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| self care | Performance of activities or tasks traditionally performed by professional health care providers. The concept includes care of oneself or one's family and friends. (12 Dec 1998) |
| self-care units | Rooms in health care facilities for patients who require a minimal level of care. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hospice care | Specialised health care, supportive in nature, provided to a dying person. A holistic approach is often taken, providing the patient and his or her family with legal, financial, emotional, or spiritual counseling in addition to meeting the patient's immediate physical needs. Care may be provided in the home, in the hospital, in specialised facilities (hospices), or in specially designated areas of long-term care facilities. The concept also includes bereavement care for the family. (12 Dec 1998) |
| skin care | Maintenance of the hygienic state of the skin under optimal conditions of cleanliness and comfort. Effective in skin care are proper washing, bathing, cleansing, and the use of soaps, detergents, oils, etc. In various disease states, therapeutic and protective solutions and ointments are useful. The care of the skin is particularly important in various occupations, in exposure to sunlight, in neonates, and in decubitus ulcer. (12 Dec 1998) |
| national centre for health care technology | A centre in the public health service which coordinates and administers a program of research, demonstrations, and evaluations of medical technologies and assessments of health care technology. (12 Dec 1998) |
| night care | Institutional night care of patients. (12 Dec 1998) |
| subacute care | Medical and skilled nursing services provided to patients who are not in an acute phase of an illness but who require a level of care higher than that provided in a long-term care setting. (jcaho, lexikon, 1994) (12 Dec 1998) |
| day care | Institutional health care of patients during the day. The patients return home at night. (12 Dec 1998) |
| supportive care | Treatment given to prevent, control, or relieve complications and side effects and to improve the patient's comfort and quality of life. (12 Dec 1998) |
| delivery of health care | The concept concerned with all aspects of providing and distributing health services to a patient population. (12 Dec 1998) |
| delivery of health care, integrated | A health care system which combines physicians, hospitals, and other medical services with a health plan to provide the complete spectrum of medical care for its customers. In a fully integrated system, the three key elements - physicians, hospital, and health plan membership - are in balance in terms of matching medical resources with the needs of purchasers and patients. (coddington et al., integrated health care: reorganizing the physician, hospital and health plan relationship, 1994, p7) (12 Dec 1998) |
| quality assurance, health care | Activities and programs intended to assure or improve the quality of care in either a defined medical setting or a program. The concept includes the assessment or evaluation of the quality of care; identification of problems or shortcomings in the delivery of care; designing activities to overcome these deficiencies; and follow-up monitoring to ensure effectiveness of corrective steps. (12 Dec 1998) |
| quality indicators, health care | Norms, criteria, standards, and other direct qualitative and quantitative measures used in determinng the quality of health care. (12 Dec 1998) |
| quality of health care | The levels of excellence which characterise the health service or health care provided based on accepted standards of quality. (12 Dec 1998) |