Patient contact definition

Patient contact means contacting patients based on collected Registry data.

Patient contact means time spent with a patient to do assessments, individual or group counseling, or education.

Patient contact means providing a patient with treatment, observation, comfort, direct assistance, bedside evaluations, office evaluations, and any other action that involves or allows direct physical contact with the patient.

Examples of Patient contact in a sentence

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• If a newly employed staff or volunteer has had a documented negative TST or a BAMT result within the previous twelve (12) months, a single TST (or the single BAMT) can be administered and read to serve as the baseline prior to Patient contact.

• Patient contact will be determined by the sponsoring surgeon and will conform to the regulations and licensing requirements of the state, province, or country in which he/she is studying.A candidate should have completed his/her formal training in general surgery and in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, but he/she should not have reached a senior position.

• Patient contact procedures, tracking, and data release also follows NJSCR Standard Operating Procedures.

More Definitions of Patient contact

Patient contact means a contact by an EMT with a person who is sick or injured in which the EMT performs at least one of the following:

Patient contact means any admission, consultation, procedure, response to emergency call, evaluation, treatment, or service performed in any facility operated by the Hospital.

Patient contact means an admission, consultation, procedure, response to emergency call, evaluation, treatment, or service performed in any facility operated by the Hospital or affiliate, including outpatient facilities. The number of patient contacts during a term of appointment will be based on each unique patient encounter (i.e., multiple consulting on the same patient during the same admission is a single patient contact).

Patient contact means any inpatient admission, inpatient consultation, inpatient or outpatient referral or inpatient or outpatient procedure performed in the Hospital.

Patient contact means contacting patients based on collected Registry data. "Patient-identifying information" means any information or collection or grouping

Patient contact means anytime during the course of an EMS call, a person is identified as a patient as defined in this policy.

Patient contact means the admission and/or primary responsibility for a patient admitted as an inpatient or outpatient, to the Hospital, or the performance of a diagnostic service or clinical procedure on a patient admitted to the Hospital at the request of the Practitioner who admitted or has primary responsibility for the patient. Consultation for the purpose of evaluating or providing an opinion on the patient's condition where a patient visit is conducted and/or a report is dictated by the consulting practitioner and included in the medical record shall also constitute a patient contact. Consultation without a patient visit or a report by the consulting practitioner in the medical record, recommending certain medical care and treatment or a referral for medical care, treatment or testing shall not constitute a patient contact for the purposes of determining qualifications for appointment to a certain Staff category.