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ceiling of care

noun/ˈsiːlɪŋ əv kɛə/

C1CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

The agreed upper limit of treatment a patient will receive, set on the basis of prognosis and their wishes.

Given his frailty, the consultant documented ward-based treatment as the ceiling of care.

Similar: treatment ceiling

Topic: Critical care in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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