Harvard Catalyst Profiles

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Sick Leave

"Sick Leave" 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.

An absence from work permitted because of illness or the number of days per year for which an employer agrees to pay employees who are sick. (Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 1981)


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sick Leave" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Sick Leave" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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