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Descriptor English: Transportation of Patients
Descriptor Spanish: Transporte de Pacientes
Descriptor transporte de pacientes
Entry term(s) accesibilidad al transporte
acceso al transporte
transporte de heridos y enfermos
transporte médico
Scope note: Conducción de pacientes enfermos o lesionados de un lugar a otro.
Descriptor Portuguese: Transporte de Pacientes
Descriptor French: Transport sanitaire
Entry term(s): Access to Transportation
Accessible Transportation
Patients Transportation
Patients Transportations
Transport of Wounded and Sick
Transport, Wounded and Sick
Transportation Access
Transportation Accessibility
Tree number(s): E02.365.839
N02.421.297.879
N04.590.374.350.813
N05.300.430.750
VS3.003.001.005
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014187
Scope note: Conveying ill or injured individuals from one place to another.
Annotation: includes transport inside (e.g., bed to bed) & outside the hosp or elsewhere but do not confuse with PATIENT TRANSFER (interfacility or intrahospital transfer for admin reasons with regard to special care or economics)
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 78; was TRANSPORT OF WOUNDED AND SICK 1964-77, was TRANSPORT OF WOUNDED 1963
Online Note: use TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS to search TRANSPORT OF WOUNDED AND SICK 1966-77
History Note: 78; was TRANSPORT OF WOUNDED AND SICK 1964-77, was TRANSPORT OF WOUNDED 1963
Related: Moving and Lifting Patients MeSH
Stretchers MeSH
DeCS ID: 28837
Unique ID: D014187
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1964/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2022/04/13
Transportation of Patients - Preferred
Concept UI M0021841
Scope note Conveying ill or injured individuals from one place to another.
Preferred term Transportation of Patients
Entry term(s) Patients Transportation
Patients Transportations
Transport of Wounded and Sick
Transport, Wounded and Sick
Access to Transportation - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000755045
Scope note Availability of transportation to health care.
Preferred term Access to Transportation
Entry term(s) Accessible Transportation
Transportation Access
Transportation Accessibility



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