care (redirected from Care (disambiguation))

care (kar) the services rendered by members of the health professions for the benefit of a patient.

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coronary care  see under unit.

critical care  see intensive care unit, under unit.

intensive care  see under unit.

primary care  the care a patient receives at first contact with the health care system, usually involving coordination of care and continuity over time.

respiratory care 

1. the health care profession providing, under a physician's supervision, diagnostic evaluation, therapy, monitoring, and rehabilitation of patients with cardiopulmonary disorders.

2. respiratory therapy; the diagnostic and therapeutic use of medical gases and their apparatus, and other forms of ventilatory support including cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

secondary care  treatment by specialists to whom a patient has been referred by primary care providers.

tertiary care  treatment given in a health care center that includes highly trained specialists and often advanced technology.

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care,

n as a legal term, the opposite of negligence.

care, reasonable,

n such care as an ordinarily prudent person would exercise under the conditions existing at the time that person is called on to act.

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care Medtalk Patient-related health services; management. See Alternate level of care, Ambulatory care, Appropriate care, Collaborative care, Comfort care, Complementary cancer care, Cooperative care, Critical care, Custodial care, Emergency care, Episode of care, Foster care, Front-end health care, Futility care, Health care, Home care, Home health care, Inappropriate care, Inpatient care, Intensity of care, Intermediate care, Kangaroo care, Kinship care, Level of care, Managed care, Medicare, Monitored anesthesia care, National health care, Opt-out managed care, Palliative care, Pharmaceutical care, Potentially ineffective care, Preventive care, Primary care, Quality of care, Referred care, Replicare care, Respite care, Scar care, Secondary care, Skilled nursing care, Supportive care, Tertiary care, Uncompensated care, Unproven care, Urgent care, Wound care.

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CARE A series of clinical trials Cardiovascular disease 1. Calcium Antagonist in Reperfusion Trial. See Reperfusion injury 2. Carvedilol Atherectomy Restenosis trial 3. A clinical trial–Cholesterol And Recurrent Events Trial–of the potential benefits of lipid-lowering agents–eg pravastatin on M&M in normocholesterolemic ♂ survivors of acute MIs. See Calgary-CARE, Lipid-lowering therapy, Pravastatin. Cf 4S, WOSCOPS.