Patient Transfer

"Patient Transfer" 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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Interfacility or intrahospital transfer of patients. Intrahospital transfer is usually to obtain a specific kind of care and interfacility transfer is usually for economic reasons as well as for the type of care provided.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Patient Transfer" by people in this website by year, and whether "Patient Transfer" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 89 publications over 24 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2016 and 2019
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