The following is a list of the "N" codes for MeSH

Mesh

Mesh consists of semi-permeable barrier made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material. Mesh is similar to web or net in that it has many attached or woven strands.-Types of mesh:...

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United States National Library of Medicine

The United States National Library of Medicine , operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library. Located in Bethesda, Maryland, the NLM is a division of the National Institutes of Health...

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--- organization and administration

--- annual reports --- appointments and schedules --- waiting lists --- committee membership --- constitution and bylaws --- decision making, organizational --- efficiency, organizational --- eligibility determination --- fee schedules --- relative value scales --- governing board --- trustees --- hospital administration --- ancillary services, hospital --- centralized hospital services --- financial management, hospital --- hospital communication systems --- hospital departments --- admitting department, hospital --- anesthesia department, hospital --- cardiology service, hospital --- central supply, hospital --- chaplaincy service, hospital --- dental service, hospital --- education department, hospital --- emergency service, hospital --- trauma centers --- food service, hospital --- housekeeping, hospital --- laboratories, hospital --- laundry service, hospital --- maintenance and engineering, hospital --- medical records department, hospital --- nuclear medicine department, hospital --- nursing service, hospital --- obstetrics and gynecology department, hospital --- occupational therapy department, hospital --- oncology service, hospital --- outpatient clinics, hospital --- pain clinics --- pathology department, hospital --- personnel administration, hospital --- pharmacy service, hospital --- physical therapy department, hospital --- psychiatric department, hospital --- purchasing, hospital --- group purchasing --- radiology department, hospital --- respiratory therapy department, hospital --- social work department, hospital --- surgery department, hospital --- urology department, hospital --- hospital distribution systems --- hospital information systems --- clinical pharmacy information systems --- medical order entry systems --- operating room information systems --- point-of-care systems --- radiology information systems --- hospital-patient relations --- hospital-physician relations --- medical staff privileges --- hospital restructuring --- hospital-physician joint ventures --- physician self-referral

Physician self-referral

Physician self-referral is a term describing the practice of a physician ordering tests on a patient and having them performed either by themselves or by a facility from which they receive a financial incentive for the referral....

 --- hospital shared services --- hospital shops --- libraries, hospital --- materials management, hospital --- inventories, hospital --- medication systems, hospital --- product line management --- institutional management teams --- management audit --- benchmarking

Benchmarking

Benchmarking is the process of comparing one's business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and/or best practices from other industries. Dimensions typically measured are quality, time and cost...

 --- management information systems --- ambulatory care information systems --- clinical laboratory information systems --- clinical pharmacy information systems --- database management systems --- decision support systems, management --- healthcare common procedure coding system

Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System

The Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System is a set of health care procedure codes based on the American Medical Association's Current Procedural Terminology .-History:...

 --- hospital information systems --- ambulatory care information systems --- clinical laboratory information systems --- clinical pharmacy information systems --- medical order entry systems --- operating room information systems --- point-of-care systems --- radiology information systems --- office automation

Office Automation

Office automation refers to the varied computer machinery and software used to digitally create, collect, store, manipulate, and relay office information needed for accomplishing basic tasks. Raw data storage, electronic transfer, and the management of electronic business information comprise the...

 --- word processing

Word processing

Word processing is the creation of documents using a word processor. It can also refer to advanced shorthand techniques, sometimes used in specialized contexts with a specially modified typewriter.-External links:...

 --- personnel staffing and scheduling information systems --- radiology information systems --- teleradiology

Teleradiology

Teleradiology is the transmission of radiological patient images, such as x-rays, CTs, and MRIs, from one location to another for the purposes of sharing studies with other radiologists and physicians. Teleradiology is a growth technology given that imaging procedures are growing approximately 15%...

 --- mandatory programs --- medication systems --- medication systems, hospital --- models, organizational --- multi-institutional systems --- hospital shared services --- organizational affiliation --- transfer agreement --- organizational culture

Organizational culture

Organizational culture is defined as “A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration" that have worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore, to be taught to...

 --- organizational innovation --- entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the act of being an entrepreneur, which can be defined as "one who undertakes innovations, finance and business acumen in an effort to transform innovations into economic goods". This may result in new organizations or may be part of revitalizing mature organizations in response...

 --- organizational objectives --- ownership

Ownership

Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over property, which may be an object, land/real estate or intellectual property. Ownership involves multiple rights, collectively referred to as title, which may be separated and held by different parties. The concept of ownership has...

 --- private sector

Private sector

In economics, the private sector is that part of the economy, sometimes referred to as the citizen sector, which is run by private individuals or groups, usually as a means of enterprise for profit, and is not controlled by the state...

 --- privatization

Privatization

Privatization is the incidence or process of transferring ownership of a business, enterprise, agency or public service from the public sector to the private sector or to private non-profit organizations...

 --- public sector

Public sector

The public sector, sometimes referred to as the state sector, is a part of the state that deals with either the production, delivery and allocation of goods and services by and for the government or its citizens, whether national, regional or local/municipal.Examples of public sector activity range...

 --- patient identification systems --- personnel management --- career mobility --- collective bargaining

Collective bargaining

Collective bargaining is a process of negotiations between employers and the representatives of a unit of employees aimed at reaching agreements that regulate working conditions...

 --- employee discipline --- employee grievances --- employee incentive plans --- employee performance appraisal --- job application --- job description

Job description

A job description is a list that a person might use for general tasks, or functions, and responsibilities of a position. It may often include to whom the position reports, specifications such as the qualifications or skills needed by the person in the job, or a salary range...

 --- management quality circles --- negotiating --- personnel administration, hospital --- personnel delegation --- personnel downsizing --- personnel loyalty --- personnel selection

Personnel selection

Personnel selection is the process used to hire individuals. Although the term can apply to all aspects of the process the most common meaning focuses on the selection of workers.-Overview:The professional standards of industrial psychologists require that any selection system be based on a job...

 --- personnel staffing and scheduling --- personnel turnover --- physician incentive plans --- salaries and fringe benefits --- family leave --- parental leave

Parental leave

Parental leave is an employee benefit that provides paid or unpaid time off work to care for a child or make arrangements for the child's welfare. Often, the term parental leave includes maternity, paternity, and adoption leave...

 --- health benefit plans, employee --- employee retirement income security act

Employee Retirement Income Security Act

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 is an American federal statute that establishes minimum standards for pension plans in private industry and provides for extensive rules on the federal income tax effects of transactions associated with employee benefit plans...

 --- sick leave

Sick leave

Sick leave is time off from work that workers can use during periods of temporary illness to stay home and address their health and safety needs without losing pay. Some workplaces offer paid sick time as a matter of workplace policy, and in few jurisdictions it is codified into law...

 --- staff development --- strikes, employee --- workload

Workload

-An amount of labor:While a precise definition of a workload is elusive, a commonly accepted definition is the hypothetical relationship between a group or individual human operator and task demands....

 --- workplace --- pharmacy administration --- drug and narcotic control --- drug utilization --- drug utilization review --- planning techniques --- professional practice --- group practice --- group practice, dental --- group practice, prepaid --- health maintenance organizations --- independent practice associations --- hospital-physician relations --- medical staff privileges --- house calls

House Calls

House Calls might refer to:* Housecall, a visit at home from a doctor*House Calls , a 1978 motion picture that starred Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Art Carney and Richard Benjamin...

 --- institutional practice --- management service organizations --- nursing

Nursing

Nursing is a healthcare profession focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life from conception to death....

 --- nursing, private duty --- nursing, supervisory --- office nursing --- nursing faculty practice --- office management

Office management

Office manager is a profession related to office supervisory positions.People that hold office management positions conduct special studies and based on the results of these special studies, they develop reports. Apart from developing reports, they also provide input to management on the...

 --- office visits --- partnership practice --- partnership practice, dental --- practice management

Practice management

Practice management software is a category of software that deals with the day-to-day operations of a medical practice. Such software frequently allows users to capture patient demographics, schedule appointments, maintain lists of insurance payers, perform billing tasks, and generate reports.In...

 --- office management

Office management

Office manager is a profession related to office supervisory positions.People that hold office management positions conduct special studies and based on the results of these special studies, they develop reports. Apart from developing reports, they also provide input to management on the...

 --- forms and records control --- practice management, dental --- practice management, medical --- practice valuation and purchase --- private practice

Private practice

Private practice may refer to:*Practice of law*Medical practice*Private Practice , released in 1978 by Dr. Feelgood*Private Practice , a U.S.-produced medical drama...

 --- fee-for-service plans --- independent practice associations --- professional autonomy --- professional corporations --- professional practice location --- professional staff committees --- ethics committees --- ethics committees, clinical --- ethics committees, research --- pharmacy and therapeutics committee --- referral and consultation --- ethics consultation --- gatekeeping --- physician self-referral

Physician self-referral

Physician self-referral is a term describing the practice of a physician ordering tests on a patient and having them performed either by themselves or by a facility from which they receive a financial incentive for the referral....

 --- remote consultation --- program development --- public health administration --- public relations

Public relations

Public relations is the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc....

 --- anniversaries and special events --- community-institutional relations --- consumer satisfaction --- patient satisfaction --- hospital-patient relations --- hospital-physician relations --- interdepartmental relations --- interinstitutional relations --- records --- birth certificates --- consent forms --- death certificates --- dental records

Dental Records

Dental Records is a small, independent record label, based in Ipswich, UK.-Releases:*DRCD0501 The Ballistics - Allow Me To Demonstrate*DRCD0601 Singled Out - Hardcore Seanography*DRCD0602 The Ballistics - The Spirit Of Kelso Cochrane...

 --- diet records --- hospital records

Hospital Records

Hospital Records is an independent record label based in South London. Primarily releasing Drum and bass, the label was started in 1996 by Tony Colman and Chris Goss, and has grown in recent years to become one of the most well known labels within UK dance music...

 --- medical records --- medical record linkage --- medical records, problem-oriented --- medical records systems, computerized --- medical order entry systems --- trauma severity indices --- abbreviated injury scale

Abbreviated Injury Scale

Abbreviated injury scale is an anatomical-based scoring system to determine the severity of single injuries based on the survivability of the injury. AIS is one of the most common anatomic scales for traumatic injuries...

 --- glasgow coma scale

Glasgow Coma Scale

Glasgow Coma Scale or GCS is a neurological scale that aims to give a reliable, objective way of recording the conscious state of a person for initial as well as subsequent assessment...

 --- glasgow outcome scale --- injury severity score

Injury Severity Score

The Injury Severity Score is an established medical score to assess trauma severity. It correlates with mortality, morbidity and hospitalization time after trauma...

 --- nursing records --- registries --- seer program --- risk management

Risk management

Risk management is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities...

 --- risk assessment

Risk assessment

Risk assessment is a step in a risk management procedure. Risk assessment is the determination of quantitative or qualitative value of risk related to a concrete situation and a recognized threat...

 --- risk adjustment --- risk sharing, financial --- safety management --- safety management --- security measures --- computer security

Computer security

Computer security is a branch of computer technology known as information security as applied to computers and networks. The objective of computer security includes protection of information and property from theft, corruption, or natural disaster, while allowing the information and property to...

 --- time management

Time management

Time management is the act or process of exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase efficiency or productivity. Time management may be aided by a range of skills, tools, and techniques used to manage time when accomplishing specific...

 --- total quality management

Total Quality Management

Total quality management or TQM is an integrative philosophy of management for continuously improving the quality of products and processes....

 --- voluntary programs

--- patient care management

--- comprehensive health care --- comprehensive dental care --- nursing process

Nursing process

The nursing process is a modified scientific method. Nursing practise was first described as a four stage nursing process by Ida Jean Orlando in 1958,. It should not be confused with nursing theories or Health informatics...

 --- nursing assessment

Nursing assessment

Nursing assessment is the gathering of information about a patient's physiological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual status.-Stage one of the nursing process:...

 --- nursing diagnosis

Nursing diagnosis

A nursing diagnosis may be part of the nursing process and is a clinical judgement about individual, family, or community experiences/responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes...

 --- nursing research

Nursing research

Nursing research is the term used to describe the evidence used to support nursing practice. Nursing, as an evidence based area of practice, has been developing since the time of Florence Nightingale to the present day, where many nurses now work as researchers based in universities as well as in...

 --- clinical nursing research --- nursing administration research --- nursing education research --- nursing evaluation research --- nursing methodology research --- patient care planning --- advance care planning --- advance directives --- living wills --- case management --- critical pathways --- patient-centered care

Patient-centered care

Patient-centered care presumes active involvement of patients and their families in the design of new care models and in decision-making about individual options for treatment...

 --- primary health care

Primary health care

Primary health care, often abbreviated as “PHC”, has been defined as "essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community through their full participation and at a cost...

 --- continuity of patient care --- patient-centered care

Patient-centered care

Patient-centered care presumes active involvement of patients and their families in the design of new care models and in decision-making about individual options for treatment...

 --- refusal to treat --- progressive patient care --- critical pathways --- delivery of health care --- after-hours care --- answering services --- delegation, professional --- delivery of health care, integrated --- provider-sponsored organizations --- health care reform

Health care reform

Health care reform is a general rubric used for discussing major health policy creation or changes—for the most part, governmental policy that affects health care delivery in a given place...

 --- health services accessibility --- managed care programs --- competitive medical plans --- health maintenance organizations --- independent practice associations --- patient freedom of choice laws --- preferred provider organizations --- provider-sponsored organizations --- product line management --- telemedicine

Telemedicine

Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technologies in order to provide clinical health care at a distance. It helps eliminate distance barriers and can improve access to medical services that would often not be consistently available in distant rural communities...

 --- remote consultation --- telepathology

Telepathology

Telepathology is the practice of pathology at a distance. It uses telecommunications technology to facilitate the transfer of image-rich pathology data between distant locations for the purposes of diagnosis, education, and research. Performance of telepathology requires that a pathologist...

 --- teleradiology

Teleradiology

Teleradiology is the transmission of radiological patient images, such as x-rays, CTs, and MRIs, from one location to another for the purposes of sharing studies with other radiologists and physicians. Teleradiology is a growth technology given that imaging procedures are growing approximately 15%...

 --- uncompensated care --- dentist's practice patterns --- disease management

Disease management

Disease management may refer to:*Disease management *Disease management...

 --- patient care team --- nursing, team --- patient-centered care

Patient-centered care

Patient-centered care presumes active involvement of patients and their families in the design of new care models and in decision-making about individual options for treatment...

 --- patient selection --- physician's practice patterns --- point-of-care systems

--- quality of health care

--- clinical competence --- dental audit --- advance directive adherence --- guideline adherence --- medical audit --- commission on professional and hospital activities --- nursing audit --- outcome and process assessment (health care) --- outcome assessment (health care) --- treatment outcome --- treatment failure --- process assessment (health care) --- peer review, health care --- professional review organizations --- program evaluation

Program evaluation

Project evaluation is a systematic method for collecting, analyzing, and using information to answer questions about projects, policies and programs, particularly about their effectiveness and efficiency...

 --- benchmarking

Benchmarking

Benchmarking is the process of comparing one's business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and/or best practices from other industries. Dimensions typically measured are quality, time and cost...

 --- quality assurance, health care --- benchmarking

Benchmarking

Benchmarking is the process of comparing one's business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and/or best practices from other industries. Dimensions typically measured are quality, time and cost...

 --- guidelines --- codes of ethics --- practice guidelines --- total quality management

Total Quality Management

Total quality management or TQM is an integrative philosophy of management for continuously improving the quality of products and processes....

 --- quality indicators, health care --- risk adjustment --- utilization review --- concurrent review --- drug utilization review