Health Care

Physicians' Practice Patterns

Patterns of practice related to diagnosis and treatment as especially influenced by cost of the service requested and provided.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

Patterns of practice related to diagnosis and treatment as especially influenced by cost of the service requested and provided.

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19 entry terms
  • Physician's Practice Patterns
  • Practice Patterns, Physician's
  • Practice Patterns, Physicians'
  • Physician Practice Patterns
  • Physician's Practice Pattern
  • Physicians' Practice Pattern
  • Practice Pattern, Physician's
  • Practice Pattern, Physicians'
  • Practice Patterns, Physician
  • Clinical Practice Pattern
  • Clinical Practice Patterns
  • Pattern, Clinical Practice
  • Patterns, Clinical Practice
  • Practice Pattern, Clinical
  • Practice Patterns, Clinical
  • Prescribing Patterns, Physician
  • Physician Prescribing Pattern
  • Physician Prescribing Patterns
  • Prescribing Pattern, Physician

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9 allowable subheadings

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

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Indexing Annotation

do not confuse with PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE where emphasis is on individual physicians & their practices

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History Note

2016 (1987)

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Previous Indexing

  • Costs and Cost Analysis (1966-1986)
  • Health Services Misuse (1977-1986)
  • Professional Practice (1968-1986)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Physicians' Practice Patterns. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010818. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010818
  2. Physicians' Practice Patterns. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67196835