Medical Subject Headings

Last uploaded: January 16, 2025
Id http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D010356
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D010356
Preferred Name

Patient Isolation

Definitions
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.
Synonyms
Negative Pressure Patient Isolation
Isolation, Patient
Home Isolation
Negative Pressure Isolation
Isolation, Home
Type http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Class
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