Health Care

Licensure

The legal authority or formal permission from authorities to carry on certain activities which by law or regulation require such permission. It may be applied to licensure of institutions as well as individuals.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

The legal authority or formal permission from authorities to carry on certain activities which by law or regulation require such permission. It may be applied to licensure of institutions as well as individuals.

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Synonyms

13 entry terms
  • Licensures
  • Institutional Personnel Licensure
  • Licenses
  • Licensing
  • Licensure, Institutional, Personnel
  • Permits
  • Institutional Personnel Licensures
  • License
  • Licensure, Institutional Personnel
  • Licensures, Institutional Personnel
  • Permit
  • Personnel Licensure, Institutional
  • Personnel Licensures, Institutional

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8 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

by the state; differentiate from ACCREDITATION (by the profession); IM; various boards can go here; specify geog

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  1. N03w.706.110w.510w
  2. N05.700.200w.450w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Licensure. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008004. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008004
  2. Licensure. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licensure
  3. Licensure. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6543077