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Definition

resource needed to perform healthcare activities

 

This is a concrete item and can be implemented directly

Term: healthcare resource; 
Plural: healthcare resources; 

Notes

NOTE As a healthcare process develops, the healthcare resources follow a life cycle. Examples of steps of such a life cycle are: 'available', 'booked', 'provided', ''in use', 'consumed', etc.

Examples

EXAMPLES healthcare professional on duty, operation theatre, instruments ready to use, consultation rooms, bed in a ward, prepared medicinal products, Electrocardiography-device, blood sample, donated kidney, etc.

Diagrammatic representation

Simple graph - healthcare resource

Required associations

one or more healthcare activities requires one or more healthcare resources
one or more healthcare resource managements direct and control the supply and use of one or more healthcare resources

Optional associations

a number of healthcare fundss is funding a number of healthcare resources

Generalisations

    resource
healthcare resource