point of care

English

Alternative forms

  • point-of-care (attributive)

Noun

point of care (plural points of care)

  1. (medicine, often attributively) The time and location at which clinicians deliver medical care and healthcare services to patients.
    Synonyms: POC, PoC (initialisms)
    Hypernym: point
    Coordinate terms: point of service, point of contact, point of purchase, point of sale
    point-of-care diagnostics;   point-of-care testing;   point-of-care ultrasound

Derived terms

  • point-of-careology

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