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Patient Safety

"Patient Safety" 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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Efforts to reduce risk, to address and reduce incidents and accidents that may negatively impact healthcare consumers.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Patient Safety" by people in this website by year, and whether "Patient Safety" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 164 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 23 publications in 2017 and 2019
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