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Patients

"Patients" 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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Individuals participating in the health care system for the purpose of receiving therapeutic, diagnostic, or preventive procedures.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Patients" by people in this website by year, and whether "Patients" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 14 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2012
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