treatment goals
Desired health outcomes
Treatment goals are the specific outcomes a patient and healthcare provider aim to achieve through medical care or therapy.
In mental health contexts, these might include reducing symptoms, developing coping skills, or improving relationships.
In physical rehabilitation, goals often involve restoring function or managing pain.
Her treatment goals included walking unassisted within six weeks.
Goals are typically measurable and time-bound, serving as benchmarks for progress.
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- full recoveryReturn to prior health
- healingRestoration of health
- progressMovement toward improvement
- milestonesNotable points of progress
outcomes · wellness · rehabilitation · therapy · objectives · improvement · benchmarks · remission · independence · daily living · functioning · discharge · stability · sobriety · coping · mental health · self-care · mobility
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Identification of illness
chief complaint · initial assessment · clinical assessment · patient history · etiology
treatment goalscomplications
Difficulties that emerge unexpectedly
unintended consequences · deterioration · regression · relapse
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