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Preoperative Care

"Preoperative 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.

Care given during the period prior to undergoing surgery when psychological and physical preparations are made according to the special needs of the individual patient. This period spans the time between admission to the hospital to the time the surgery begins. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Preoperative Care" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Preoperative Care" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 1216 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 80 publications in 2015
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