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Subacute Care

"Subacute 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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Medical and skilled nursing services provided to patients who are not in an acute phase of an illness but who require a level of care higher than that provided in a long-term care setting. (JCAHO, Lexikon, 1994)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Subacute Care" by people in this website by year, and whether "Subacute Care" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 12 publications over 5 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2018 and 2021
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