Health Care

Professional Corporations

Legally authorized corporations owned and managed by one or more professionals (medical, dental, legal) in which the income is ascribed primarily to the professional activities of the owners or stockholders.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Legally authorized corporations owned and managed by one or more professionals (medical, dental, legal) in which the income is ascribed primarily to the professional activities of the owners or stockholders.

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Synonyms

7 entry terms
  • Corporation, Professional
  • Corporations, Professional
  • Professional Corporation
  • Corporate Practice
  • Corporate Practices
  • Practice, Corporate
  • Practices, Corporate

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Aspects Covered

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

coord IM with PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, MEDICAL or PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, DENTAL (IM) for med or dent profess corp

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History Note

91(79); was see under PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 1979-90

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Previous Indexing

  • Practice Management, Dental (1968-1978)
  • Practice Management, Medical (1968-1978)
  • Professional Practice (1968-1978)

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NLM Classification

W 87

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Professional Corporations. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011362. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011362
  2. Professional Corporations. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_corporation
  3. Professional Corporations. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3487815