secondary prevention
Medical term Patient Care Coordination and Education
Finding and treating a disease in its early stages to prevent complications and progression.
Sources
- Fundamentals of Nursing, Chapter 4 Key Terms · OpenStax
Related terms
- preventive careRoutine care such as screenings, checkups and counseling to prevent illness.
- primary preventionPrevention that stops a disease or health condition before it starts.
- referralA written order from the primary care provider for the patient to see a specialist or get certain services.
- screeningTests or exams to detect a disease early, usually in people without symptoms.
- shared decision-makingThe patient and provider make health care decisions together, with the patient stating their needs and limits.
- social determinants of healthConditions where people are born, live, learn, work and age that affect health outcomes.
- teach-back methodAsking the patient to explain or show, in their own words, what they were taught, to confirm understanding.
- tertiary preventionManaging an existing disease to prevent complications, disability or death.