defined association between healthcare matters as determined by one or more healthcare actors
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NOTE 1 A health thread reconciles a range of healthcare matters reflecting the variety of scopes of healthcare actors, particularly of healthcare providers. NOTE 2 A health thread inherently associates the healthcare processes as well as the healthcare activity period elements referring to those healthcare matters. NOTE 3 A health thread may be established by a team (e.g. a coordination committee). NOTE 4 A health thread can be built step-by-step, by allowing each healthcare professional to add their perspective into a common health thread. NOTE 7 Under the responsibility of a designated healthcare actor, a health thread linking several healthcare matters can describe an episodes of care bundle, for instance, a partial or comprehensive synthesis of healthcare actor related episodes of care. NOTE 8 A collective decision (before, during or after the healthcare interventions) may define a health thread and so the idea of the 'episode' accepted by all the healthcare professionals involved. NOTE 9 Two health conditions may sometimes only be recognized as belonging to the same health thread late in the process of care. Conversely, two health conditions thought initially to belong to the same health thread may need to be separated later. NOTE 10 Since a health thread links any number of healthcare matters; it also may link health threads linking other health issues. Hence, a health thread may be considered an aggregation of health issues and/or health threads.
health thread
Expresses a partitive relationship between two concepts.