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Ambulatory Care
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Definition of 'Ambulatory Care'Health care services provided to patients on an ambulatory basis, rather than by admission to a hospital or other health care facility. The services may be a part of a hospital, augmenting its inpatient services, or may be provided at a free-standing facility. Common names: Ambulatory Care; Care, Ambulatory; Outpatient Care; Care, Outpatient; Health Services, Outpatient; Health Service, Outpatient; Outpatient Health Service; Service, Outpatient Health; Outpatient Health Services; Services, Outpatient Health; Clinic Visits; Clinic Visit; Visit, Clinic; Visits, Clinic |
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Survey of long-term follow-up programs in the United States for survivors of childhood brain tumors.
13 Dec 2009 
INTRODUCTION: Despite recognition that childhood brain tumor survivors often suffer multiple late effects following therapy, little is known regarding the long-term follow-up (LTFU) programs for these patients. METHODS: A 16-question survey was ... Read more...
Ventricular assist devices the challenges of outpatient management.
25 Oct 2009 The need for mechanical assistance of the failing heart, whether acute after a myocardial infarction or permanent in patients with end-stage heart failure, has increased with improvements in medical therapy and a growing aged population. Over the ... Read more...
29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Quality improvement (QI) measures often are cited as goals for individual practices and medical centers and may someday form a component of reimbursement guidelines. Relatively few QI metrics relevant to ambulatory pulmonary medicine ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Ambulatory Care'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Survey of long-term follow-up programs in the United States for survivors of childhood brain tumors. 13 Dec 2009
- Teaching the next generation of neurologists.
Nov 2009 - Identifying neighborhood stressors in assessment of drug treatment continuity and relapse. 30 Oct 2009
- Improving mammography screening. 30 Oct 2009
- Reducing falls among outpatients: a volunteer transports patients from the parking lot to their exercise programs. 30 Oct 2009
- Ventricular assist devices the challenges of outpatient management. 25 Oct 2009
- Pharmacists are key to enhancing benefit risk for medicines. 10 Oct 2009
- Design and measurement of quality improvement indicators in ambulatory pulmonary care: creating a "culture of quality" in an academic pulmonary division. 29 Sep 2009
- Physician workforce for acne care in the United States, 2003 through 2005. 29 Sep 2009
- Outcomes, health policy, and managed care: relationships between patient-reported outcome measures and clinical measures in outpatients with heart failure. 29 Sep 2009
- Smoking cessation: how to advise the patient. 29 Sep 2009
- Office management of deep venous thrombosis in the elderly. 29 Sep 2009
- Impact of coronary computed tomographic angiography findings on the medical treatment and control of coronary artery disease and its risk factors. 29 Sep 2009
- [Remembering Béla Mária (1903-1975)] 28 Sep 2009
- Pediatric adverse drug events in the outpatient setting: an 11-year national analysis. 26 Sep 2009
- Clinicians' assessments of electronic medication safety alerts in ambulatory care. 26 Sep 2009
- Payment by results. Market failure. 20 Sep 2009
- Has payment by results affected how care is recorded? 20 Sep 2009
- Effect of a pharmacist-run call center on medication access for ambulatory care patients. 13 Sep 2009
- Ambulatory care among young adults in the United States. 13 Sep 2009
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Technical information about 'Ambulatory Care'
Definition: Health care services provided to patients on an ambulatory basis, rather than by admission to a hospital or other health care facility. The services may be a part of a hospital, augmenting its inpatient services, or may be provided at a free-standing facility.
Descriptor UI: D000553
Alternative terms: Ambulatory Care; Care, Ambulatory; Outpatient Care; Care, Outpatient; Health Services, Outpatient; Health Service, Outpatient; Outpatient Health Service; Service, Outpatient Health; Outpatient Health Services; Services, Outpatient Health; Clinic Visits; Clinic Visit; Visit, Clinic; Visits, Clinic;
Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; psychology;
Tree Number: E02.760.106; N02.421.585.106;
History Note: 68(66)