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URGENT CARE [5 records]

Record 1 2024-09-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
  • Mental Disorders
CONT

Acute mental health care can be broadly defined as a short-term response to the urgent needs of an individual experiencing a mental health crisis.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
  • Troubles mentaux
CONT

[...] les lits en santé mentale qui ne servent pas à fournir des soins de santé mentale de courte durée et qui sont situés dans un hôpital général sont considérés comme des lits psychiatriques de longue durée [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
  • Economics
OBS

The Victoria Hospitals Foundation raises funds for priority medical equipment and special projects at Royal Jubilee Hospital and Victoria General Hospital, Vancouver Island's largest and most comprehensive health care resources. [The foundation consults] with Island Health to determine the most urgent equipment needs so [donations are] spent where it will have the greatest impact.

OBS

The mission of the Victoria Hospitals Foundation is to encourage contributions to the improvement of health services on Vancouver Island.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
  • Économique

Spanish

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Record 3 2004-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Health Law
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

The doctor-patient relationship has usually been considered voluntary. The Code of ethics of the C. M. A. [Canadian Medical Association] states that a physician has the right to refuse a patient, except on the basis of color, religion or political belief. However, the Code further provides that the right of refusal does not exist in an emergency and that a physician should render all assistance possible where an urgent need for medical care exists.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la santé
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Le dentiste se rappellera toujours l'obligation qu'il a de fournir le service au patient et donc de dispenser ses soins à tout le monde. Il ne refusera pas de patients en faisant de la discrimination qui irait à l'encontre de la loi des droits de la personne. Sauf pour les cas d'urgence, il a cependant le droit de refuser un patient pour incompatibilité de caractère ou faute de temps.

Spanish

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Record 4 2003-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
DEF

Care given to patients who require immediate medical intervention. Any delay in the provision of treatment will threaten life or limb.

OBS

See "urgent care".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organización médica y hospitalaria
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Record 5 1998-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Visual Disorders
CONT

Acquired cataracts may result from trauma, radiation, or metabolic disorder.

CONT

Acquired cataracts do not require the same urgent care(aimed at preventing amblyopia) as infantile cataracts, because the children are older and the visual system more mature.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Troubles de la vision

Spanish

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