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Direct care is the care of an identified patient by an identified clinical professional, used throughout the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. In late 2023, it became the focus of the first public uses of the NHS purchase of Palantir software.
Alloparental care in pilot whales is observed in both direct and indirect forms. Babysitting is a form of direct care while shelter construction and maintenance are indirect care. The pilot whales had observed care through escorting from a non-biological member of the group. [9]
Healthcare technicians provide two levels of care, direct and indirect. Often, technicians are trained and qualified to complete specialty tasks and this varies depending on clinic needs. Healthcare technicians provide a key role in patient care and cleanliness of hospital units.
Direct medical direction, often called on-line medical direction, is when care is rendered under direct orders of the base station physician, usually over the radio or telephone. The other is indirect medical direction, or off-line medical direction, which includes the development of a set of written medical guidelines, or standing orders.
However, the benefits of paternal care have rarely been studied in mammals, largely because only 5-10% of mammals exhibit such care (mostly present in primates, rodents and canids). [11] [12] In those species in which males provide extensive care for their offspring, indirect evidence suggests that its costs can be substantial.
In the United States, direct primary care (DPC) is a type of primary care billing and payment arrangement made between patients and medical providers, without sending claims to insurance providers. It is an umbrella term , incorporating various health care delivery systems that involve direct financial relationships between patients and health ...
Finally, direct taxes can’t be avoided or shifted, but indirect taxes can. That’s because a business that is required to pay an indirect tax can pass the expense on to the consumer by raising ...
Indirect benefits increase genetic fitness for the offspring, and thereby increase the parents' inclusive fitness. When it appears that the choosy sex does not receive direct benefits from his or her mate, indirect benefits may be the payoff for being selective.