non-urgent
Adjective
Meaning
non-urgent (not comparable)
Alternative form of nonurgent.
Examples
When patients are admitted to hospital for elective surgery or non-urgent conditions, their vital signs are only monitored every four hours, unless they have been identified as being at high risk of deterioration.
As part of the phased-in services, the Veterans Health Administration has developed a risk-based framework to prioritize non-urgent procedures with the urgent procedures currently being performed.
COVID-19 positive patients in convalescent care and those deemed non-urgent cases will be accepted at the Morial federal medical station in New Orleans and at the Kay Bailey Hutchison federal medical center in Dallas.
Loretan from the Swiss Medical Network told the newspaper that the government’s decision to stop non-urgent surgeries was the right one but indicated that it is now important to consider how to reintroduce non-emergency surgeries step by step.
But Dr. J. Stephen Jones, Inova's president and CEO, said, "Our finances are a mess at this point," with the system postponing non-urgent treatments and eliminating 427 administration and management positions.
Health officials began scrambling last week to free up space in hospitals, cancelling some non-urgent and elective procedures and adding critical care beds, in anticipation of a coming surge of COVID-19 patients over the coming weeks.