point of care
noun
variants
or less commonly point-of-care
plural points of care also points-of-care
: a site where medical care is received
Antigen testing … is cheaper and faster than standard testing, and it can happen at points of care—long-term-care facilities, prisons, schools, and doctors' offices.—Whet Moser
… truly universal [health insurance] systems offer healthcare free (or nearly free) at the point of care.—A. W. Gaffney
… this ongoing trend is also changing the way that patient testing is viewed—and especially the way that healthcare providers view testing performed at the point-of-care …—Kim Futrell
—often used especially in hyphenated form before another nounpoint-of-care testing
Shifts toward point-of-care coronavirus tests, which are fast and simple enough to perform without the need for specialized equipment, could ease some of the burden on laboratories.—Katherine J. Wu
… patients with prolonged out-of-hospital times may benefit most from point-of-care thrombolysis.—Laurie J. Morrison et al.
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