Terms Related to Distance

• HMO

  Organized systems for providing comprehensive prepaid health care that have five basic attributes: (1) provide care in a defined geographic area; (2) provide or ensure ...

• Intermediate Care Facility

  Institutions which provide health-related care and services to individuals who do not require the degree of care which hospitals or skilled nursing facilities provide, but ...

• Agency for Health Care Policy and Research

  An agency of the PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE established in 1990 to "provide indexing, abstracting, translating, publishing, and other services leading to a more effective and ...

• Primary Health Care

  Care which provides integrated, accessible health care services by clinicians who are accountable for addressing a large majority of personal health care needs, developing a ...

• Progressive Patient Care

  Organization of medical and nursing care according to the degree of illness and care requirements in the hospital. The elements are intensive care, intermediate care, ...

• United States Agency for Health Care Policy and Research

  An agency of the PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE established in 1990 to "provide indexing, abstracting, translating, publishing, and other services leading to a more effective and ...

• Primary Care

  Care which provides integrated, accessible health care services by clinicians who are accountable for addressing a large majority of personal health care needs, developing a ...