To pass from one place to another, or cause someone or something to pass from one place to another.
The formal shifting of responsibility for the care of a patient from one physician to another, from one institution to another, or from one unit of the hospital to another. There are specific Medicare payment implications depending on the type of transfer.
The mental process whereby a person transfers patterns of feelings and behavior that had previously been experienced with important figures such as parents or siblings to another person. Quite often these feelings are shifted to the caregiver.