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Early Ambulation

"Early Ambulation" 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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Procedure to accelerate the ability of a patient to walk or move about by reducing the time to AMBULATION. It is characterized by a shorter period of hospitalization or recumbency than is normally practiced.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Early Ambulation" by people in this website by year, and whether "Early Ambulation" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 19 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2013
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