Hospital patient
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Object Class |
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| METEOR identifier: | 268958 |
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| Definition: | A patient is a person for whom a hospital accepts responsibility for treatment and/or care. There are two categories of patient, admitted and non-admitted patients. Boarders are not patients. |
| Context: | Admitted patient care and public hospital establishments. |
| Specialisation of: | Person/group of persons |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Comments: | While the concept of a person for whom a service provider accepts responsibility for treatment or care is also applicable to non-admitted patient and public hospital establishments care and to welfare services, different terminology is often used in these other care settings e.g. client, resident. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
| Origin: | National Health Data Committee |
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