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Transportation of Patients

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Definition: Conveying ill or injured individuals from one place to another.  includes transport inside (e.g., bed to bed) & outside the hosp or elsewhere but do not confuse with PATIENT TRANSFER (interfacility or intrahospital transfer for admin reasons with regard to special care or economics)   
See Also Moving and Lifting Patients; Stretchers
Other names Transport of Wounded and Sick; Patients Transportations; Patients Transportation; Transport, Wounded and Sick

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