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Patient Advocacy

"Patient Advocacy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Promotion and protection of the rights of patients, frequently through a legal process.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Patient Advocacy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Patient Advocacy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 11 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2000 and 2005
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