point of care

English

Alternative forms

• point-of-care (attributive)

Noun

point of care (plural points of care)

1. (medicine, often attributively) The time and location at which clinicians deliver medical care and healthcare services to patients.

   Synonyms: POC, PoC (initialisms)

   Hypernym: point

   Coordinate terms: point of service, point of contact, point of purchase, point of sale

   point-of-care diagnostics;   point-of-care testing;   point-of-care ultrasound

Derived terms

• point-of-careology

Related terms

• POCT
• POCUS

Further reading

• “point of care”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.