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Respite Care

"Respite 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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Patient care provided in the home or institution intermittently in order to provide temporary relief to the family home care giver.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Respite Care" by people in this website by year, and whether "Respite Care" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 4 publications over 4 distinct years, with a maximum of 1 publications in 1994 and 1997 and 2001 and 2019
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