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Descriptor English: Hospital Units
Descriptor Spanish: Unidades Hospitalarias
Descriptor unidades hospitalarias
Scope note: Aquellas áreas de la organización hospitalaria que no se consideran departamentos y que prestan atención especializada a pacientes. Incluyen diversas salas de cuidados especiales.
Descriptor Portuguese: Unidades Hospitalares
Descriptor French: Unités hospitalières
Entry term(s): Hospital Unit
Unit, Hospital
Units, Hospital
Tree number(s): N02.278.388
SP8.570.747.231.830.402.717
VS3.002.001.001
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006757
Scope note: Those areas of the hospital organization not considered departments which provide specialized patient care. They include various hospital special care wards.
Annotation: special care wards go here or specific unit; consider also PATIENTS' ROOMS & see X refs there
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
OG organization & administration
SD supply & distribution
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 74
Online Note: use HOSPITAL UNITS to search WARDS, HOSPITAL 1974-78
History Note: 74; WARDS, HOSPITAL was see under HOSPITAL UNITS 1974-78
Entry Version: HOSP UNITS
DeCS ID: 6913
Unique ID: D006757
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1974/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1992/05/15
Hospital Units - Preferred
Concept UI M0010583
Scope note Those areas of the hospital organization not considered departments which provide specialized patient care. They include various hospital special care wards.
Preferred term Hospital Units
Entry term(s) Hospital Unit
Unit, Hospital
Units, Hospital



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