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Referral and Consultation

"Referral and Consultation" 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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The practice of sending a patient to another program or practitioner for services or advice which the referring source is not prepared to provide.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Referral and Consultation" by people in this website by year, and whether "Referral and Consultation" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 64 publications over 25 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2012
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