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Ambulatory Care

"Ambulatory Care" 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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Health care services provided to patients on an ambulatory basis, rather than by admission to a hospital or other health care facility. The services may be a part of a hospital, augmenting its inpatient services, or may be provided at a free-standing facility.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Ambulatory Care" by people in this website by year, and whether "Ambulatory Care" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 126 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 10 publications in 2019
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