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Patient Selection

"Patient Selection" 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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Criteria and standards used for the determination of the appropriateness of the inclusion of patients with specific conditions in proposed treatment plans and the criteria used for the inclusion of subjects in various clinical trials and other research protocols.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Patient Selection" by people in this website by year, and whether "Patient Selection" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 181 publications over 25 distinct years, with a maximum of 13 publications in 2012 and 2014
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