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Actors, performers and resources
The concepts describing who takes part in care — subjects of care, professionals, organisations, and third parties — the roles they play, and what it means to provide care.
care resource
resource needed to perform care activities

Actors, performers and resources
The concepts describing who takes part in care — subjects of care, professionals, organisations, and third parties — the roles they play, and what it means to provide care.
- care actor
  organization or person participating in care
- subject of care
  person seeking to receive, receiving, or having received care
- care provider
  care actor that is able to be assigned one or more care period mandates
- care third party
  care actor other than a care provider or the subject of care
- care organization
  organization being a care provider
- care employment
  mandate given by a care organization to a care personnel describing the roles and responsibilities assigned to that care personnel
- care personnel
  person mandated through a care employment
- care professional entitlement
  professional care mandate held by a person concerning specific roles in care
- care professional
  person holding a care professional entitlement
- other carer
  person being a care third party
- care supporting organization
  organization that is a care third party
- subject of care proxy
  care actor exercising a proxy mandate
- care performer
  role adopted by a person when performing care
- self-care performer
  role played by a subject of care when performing self-care
- third party care performer
  role performed by a care third party
- prescriber
  role performed by a care professional when recommending or authorising a care activity
- care resource
  resource needed to perform care activities
- point of care
  location where direct care activities are performed
- medical device
  instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, appliance, implant, reagent for in vitro use, software, material or other similar or related article, intended by the manufacturer to be used, alone or in combination, for human beings, for one or more of the specific medical purposes of — diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or alleviation of disease, — diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, alleviation of or compensation for an injury, — investigation, replacement, modification, or support of the anatomy or of a physiological process, — supporting or sustaining life, — control of conception, — disinfection of medical devices, — providing information by means of in vitro examination of specimens derived from the human body, and which does not achieve its primary intended action by pharmacological, immunological or metabolic means, in or on the human body, but which can be assisted in its intended function by such means
- automatic medical device
  medical device capable of performing care activities by itself or under human supervision
- medicinal product
  pharmaceutical product or combination of pharmaceutical products that may be administered to human beings for treating or preventing disease, with the aim or purpose of making a medical diagnosis or to restore, correct or modify physiological functions
- care funds
  resource provided for funding care delivery
- facility
  place, building or equipment used for a particular purpose

care resource

resource needed to perform care activities

care resource extends the class resource

Table 1. Associations of care resource
Source multiplicity	Source class	Association	Target class	Target multiplicity
1..*	care activity	requires	care resource	0..*
1..*	care funds	funding	care resource	1..*
0..*	care process	consumes	care resource	0..*
0..*	care process	use	care resource	0..*

Figure 1. Class Diagram

Admitted terms care resource

Plural care resources

Example 1 Care professional on duty.

Example 2 Operation theatre.

Example 3 Instruments ready to use.

Example 4 Consultation rooms.

Example 5 Bed in a ward.

Example 6 Prepared medicinal products.

Example 7 Electrocardiography device.

Example 8 Blood sample.

Example 9 Donated kidney.

Note 1 As a care process develops, the care resources typically follow a life cycle. Examples of steps of such a life cycle are: “available”, “booked”, “provided”, “in use”, “consumed”, etc.