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Patient Acuity

"Patient Acuity" 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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An assessment of a patient's illness, its chronicity, severity, and other qualitative aspects.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Patient Acuity" by people in this website by year, and whether "Patient Acuity" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 24 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2020
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