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Clinical point of care (POC) is the point in time when clinicians deliver healthcare products and services to patients at the time of care. Clinical documentation...

Point-of-care testing (POCT), also called near-patient testing or bedside testing, is defined as medical diagnostic testing at or near the point of care—that...

Steward Health Care is a large private for-profit health system headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It utilizes an integrated care model to deliver healthcare...

more comprehensive care through government programs such as Medicaid and Medicare. The U.S. healthcare system has been the subject of significant political...

primary care physicians have begun to deliver primary care outside of the managed care (insurance-billing) system through direct primary care which is...

England, an integrated care system (ICS) is a statutory partnership of organisations who plan, buy, and provide health and care services in their geographical...

publicly funded health care system, which is mostly free at the point of use and has most services provided by private entities. The system was established by...

territorial systems of publicly funded health care, informally called Medicare. It is guided by the provisions of the Canada Health Act of 1984, and is...

The Clinical Care Classification (CCC) System is a standardized, coded nursing terminology that identifies the discrete elements of nursing practice. The...

Primary care is the day-to-day healthcare given by a health care provider. Typically this provider acts as the first contact and principal point of continuing...

Germany has a universal multi-payer health care system paid for by a combination of statutory health insurance (Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung) and private...

Palliative care (derived from the Latin root palliare, or 'to cloak') is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life...

published 86-GP-1, Standard for Care Labelling of Textiles, which promoted a symbol-based textile care labelling system in which symbols were colored:...

health care system, but many countries use mixed public-private systems to deliver universal health care. Alternatively, much of the provision of care can...

Multiplexed point-of-care testing (xPOCT) is a more complex form of point-of-care testing (POCT), or bedside testing. Point-of-care testing is designed...

practice, most floating-point systems use base two, though base ten (decimal floating point) is also common. Floating-point arithmetic operations, such...

and Dave O'Neill point out that "... life expectancy and infant mortality are both poor measures of the efficacy of a health care system because they are...

Foster care is a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home (residential child care community, treatment center, juvenile center...

services free at the point of use for most people. The NHS also conducts research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Free...

ultrasound employing point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is the application of ultrasound at the point of care to make immediate patient-care decisions. It is...