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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.

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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)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Preoperative Care" by people in this website by year, and whether "Preoperative Care" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 90 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2006
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