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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.

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)


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Patient-Centered Care" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Patient-Centered Care" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 928 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 97 publications in 2016
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.