Disciplines and Occupations

Clinical Pharmacology

The branch of pharmacology that deals directly with the effectiveness and safety of drugs in humans.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

The branch of pharmacology that deals directly with the effectiveness and safety of drugs in humans.

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Pharmacology, Clinical

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

specialty only; do not use as an NIM coordinate: the pharmacology of a drug in humans = drug /pharmacol and do not also add PHARMACOLOGY, CLINICAL

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History Note

80

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Previous Indexing

  • Pharmacology (1966-1979)

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Tree Numbers

  1. H01w.158w.703w.152w
  2. H02w.628w.512w

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Clinical Pharmacology. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010601. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010601
  2. Clinical Pharmacology. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_pharmacology
  3. Clinical Pharmacology. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1774688