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... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Infection Control > Patient Isolation
... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Infection Control > Patient Isolation
... > Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Infection Control > Patient Isolation
Therapeutics > Patient Isolation

Preferred term

Patient Isolation  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • The segregation of patients with communicable or other diseases for a specified time. Isolation may be strict, in which movement and social contacts are limited; modified, where an effort to control specified aspects of care is made in order to prevent cross infection; or reverse, where the patient is secluded in a controlled or germ-free environment in order to protect him or her from cross infection.

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Entry terms

  • Isolation, Patient

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-GHP01XL0-J

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