Primary Care Definition

noun
The initial medical care given to an outpatient by a general health care provider, especially a family physician, internist, or pediatrician, usually as part of regular, nonemergency care, and sometimes followed by referral to other medical providers.
American Heritage Medicine

(healthcare) The medical attention that a patient receives upon first contact with a healthcare system; either a general practitioner or the A&E or ER department of a hospital.

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Primary Care Sentence Examples

  • The program provides optometrists with up-to-date knowledge of a wide range of fields, particularly in primary care optometry.

  • Academic departments and pharmaceutical sponsors submit research projects involving primary care gastroenterology to the PCSG each year.

  • The impact of supplementary prescribing in primary care Pharmacist prescribing a blind alley?

  • May we have a statement from the Health Secretary on advice to primary care trusts about the use of Herceptin for early-stage breast cancer?

  • A postgraduate meeting of doctors, dentists and pharmacists included information on management of mouth ulcers and oral candida in primary care.

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