Definitions for "Chronic Care"
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Acute care, Sanatorium, Serious health condition, Urgent care, Critical care medicine, Partial hospitalization, Sub-acute care, Intensive care, Subacute care, Acute services, Medical care, Out-patient, Long-term care, Long term care, Hospital, Intensive care unit, Picu, Critical care, Emergency medicine, Maintenance care, Outpatient, Inpatient treatment, Rehabilitative care, Hospice, Continuing care, Hospice care, Inpatient, Convalescent, Principal diagnosis, Trauma center, Intermediate nursing care, Clinic, Rehabilitation hospital, Outpatient care, Ambulatory care, Emergency medical services, Home care, Triage, Comfort care, Extended care facility, Icu, Skilled nursing care, Home health care, Inpatient care, Icf/mr, Skilled nursing facility, Skilled care, Medical treatment, Psychiatric nurse, Nursing home care
On-going care for a disease or condition that slowly progresses or is long term in nature.
care for an illness characterized by extended duration or frequent recurrence, and slow development.
Care and treatment rendered to individuals whose health problems are of a long-term and continuing nature. Rehabilitation facilities, nursing homes, and mental hospitals may be considered chronic care facilities.
Treatment or services necessary to treat a medical condition that lasts a lifetime or recur.
Chronic care is care required by a person who is chronically ill or has a functional disability (physical or mental) whose acute phase of illness is over, whose vital processes may or may not be stable and who requires a range of services and medical management that can only be provided by a hospital.
A pattern of medical care that focuses on long-term care with chronic diseases or conditions.
Care for an illness continuing over a protracted period of time or recurring frequently. Chronic conditions often begin inconspicuously and symptoms are less pronounced than acute conditions.
Care for a patient with a long-term illness.
care (different from acute care) furnished to treat an illness, injury or condition, which does not require hospitalization, which may be expected to be of long duration without any reasonably predictable date of termination, and which may be marked by occurrences requiring continuous or periodic care as necessary.
care provided to help maintain daily function. There is no expectation that the care recipient will improve or recover. Long-term care is chronic care.
Long term care of individuals with long standing, persistent diseases or conditions. It includes care specific to the problem as well as other measures to encourage self-care, to promote health, and to prevent loss of function.
providing or concerned with long-term medical care lasting usually more than 90 days especially for individuals with chronic physical or mental impairment
Continuous, long-term care for persons suffering from chronic conditions. May be contrasted with "acute care."
the ongoing provision of medical, functional, psychological, social, environmental, and spiritual care services that enable people with serious and persistent health and/or mental conditions to optimize their functional independence and well-being, from the time of condition onset until problem resolution or death. Chronic care conditions are multidimensional, interdependent, complex and ongoing.
Long term care of persistent diseases or conditions such as asthma or low back pain. Chronic care promotes self-care to improve your state of health and prevent further loss of function.
Chronic care refers to medical care which addresses preexisting or long term illness, as opposed to acute care which is concerned with short term or severe illness of brief duration. Chronic medical conditions include, but are not limited to, asthma, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, congestive heart disease, cirrhosis of the liver, hypertension and depression. Chronic medical care accounts for more than 75% of health care dollars spent in the US.