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Long-Term Care

"Long-Term 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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Care over an extended period, usually for a chronic condition or disability, requiring periodic, intermittent, or continuous care.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Long-Term Care" by people in this website by year, and whether "Long-Term Care" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 52 publications over 25 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2003
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