Health Care Activity
deinstitutionalize
[ dee-in-sti-too-shuh-nl-ahyz, -tyoo-, dee-in- ]
Subclass of:
Institutionalization
Definitions related to deinstitutionalization:
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Practice of caring for individuals in the community, rather than in an institutional environment with resultant effects on the individual, the individual's family, the community, and the health care system.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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The practice of caring for individuals in the community, rather than in an institutional environment with resultant effects on the individual, the individual's family, the community, and the health care system.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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