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Needs Assessment

"Needs Assessment" 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.

Systematic identification of a population's needs or the assessment of individuals to determine the proper level of services needed.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Needs Assessment" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Needs Assessment" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 739 publications over 28 distinct years, with a maximum of 72 publications in 2018
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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.