tertiary prevention
Medical term Patient Care Coordination and Education
Managing an existing disease to prevent complications, disability or death.
Sources
- Fundamentals of Nursing, Chapter 4 Key Terms · OpenStax
Related terms
- secondary preventionFinding and treating a disease in its early stages to prevent complications and progression.
- 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.