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Pilot Projects

"Pilot Projects" 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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Small-scale tests of methods and procedures to be used on a larger scale if the pilot study demonstrates that these methods and procedures can work.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pilot Projects" by people in this website by year, and whether "Pilot Projects" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 567 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 34 publications in 2019
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