treatment plan
- noun
- /ˈtritmənt plæn/
- Specialized
- Such a collaborative posture can facilitate greater adherence to treatment plans and encourage appropriate self-management and preventive care.
- develop a treatment plan
- implement the treatment plan
- an individualized treatment plan
We make medicines and a treatment plan for you.
- We make medicines and a treatment plan for you.
- It sounds like you want more choice in your treatment plan.
- We'll go through, you know, set up a treatment plan that would consist of more rounds of chemo and to get me back into remission again.
- Think about cognitive behavior therapy and some of the protocols that they've developed and the treatment plan, you know, formulas and templates.
Examples
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We need a defined treatment plan for a patient with otitis externa.
Academic text (2006) -
Hypnotherapy is typically a complementary therapy, meaning that it's part of a broader treatment plan.
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We make medicines and a treatment plan for you.
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Based on these interviews, youth assistance workers designed a treatment plan for each youth in the treatment group.
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In a managed care era when shorter treatment plans are becoming increasingly common, this is an important finding.
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They'll look at your notes, look at your skin and come up with the treatment plan for you.
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Both of them always prescribe exercise as part of the treatment plan for anybody that they are treating when it comes to ADD.
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In primary care in particular, adherence to a treatment plan depends utterly on your patient and/or their carers.
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The authors suggest that this may be a preferred treatment plan—over other traditional options—for several reasons.
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The doctor explained the treatment plan to ensure I understood the medications and therapies involved.
Synonyms
A set of steps arranged to reach a goal
A plan of diet, exercise, or medicine to keep you healthy
A planned set of medical steps someone follows, like diet, medicine, and exercise
A plan that shows the steps to reach a goal
How Detailed
- Specialized
- Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a detailed outline of medical interventions' is directly and compositionally derived from 'treatment' (medical care) combined with 'plan' (ordered steps or actions). This is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common noun + noun compound used in medical contexts, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
The compound treatment plan comes from the simple image of a doctor making a clear map of care: treatment means the ways to help a patient, and plan means the list of steps to follow. So a treatment plan is a written list of treatments and steps the medical team will use to try to reach the goal of 'getting better'.