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Patient-Centered Care

"Patient-Centered 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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Design of patient care wherein institutional resources and personnel are organized around patients rather than around specialized departments. (From Hospitals 1993 Feb 5;67(3):14)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Patient-Centered Care" by people in this website by year, and whether "Patient-Centered Care" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 135 publications over 24 distinct years, with a maximum of 13 publications in 2016
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