Professional or Occupational Group
health care personnel
Definitions related to health personnel:
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A person licensed, certified or otherwise authorized or permitted by law to administer healthcare in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession. Example(s): Physician, Physician Assistant, Psychologist, Nurse, Physical Therapist.BRIDG Model DictionaryBiomedical Research Integrated Domain Group, 2019
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A person who directly or indirectly administers interventions that are designed to improve the physical or emotional status of a biologic entity. A person licensed, certified or otherwise authorized or permitted by law to administer healthcare in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession.BRIDG Model DictionaryBiomedical Research Integrated Domain Group, 2019
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Men and women working in the provision of health services, whether as individual practitioners or employees of health institutions and programs, whether or not professionally trained, and whether or not subject to public regulation. (From A Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, 1976)NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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(healthcare provider) A licensed person or organization that provides healthcare services.NCI Dictionary of Cancer TermsU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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(healthcare provider) A person licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by law to administer healthcare in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession, including a healthcare facility.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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(health care provider) Persons who provides health care as part of their job responsibilities: or a person or organization who is licensed to supply health care.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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(health care personnel) Occupations directed to the diagnosis, cure and prevention of disease or clinical care; index more specific careers where possible.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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(roleclasshealthcareprovider) An Entity (player) that is authorized to provide health care services by some authorizing agency (scoper).NCI Health Level 7 VocabularyU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2018
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