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Category M - Persons

Indexing Principles

The term PATIENTS is reserved for articles about patients as a social, sociologic, or psychological group irrespective of their disease. Do not add the term PATIENTS for articles about disease in humans.

The physician as patient
*PHYSICIANS
* PATIENTS
HUMAN (check tag)

 

Enteral feeding in the malnourished patient
MALNUTRITION/ *ther
*ENTERAL FEEDING
HUMAN (check tag)

The MeSH heading POPULATION GROUPS has two terms treed under it: CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS and ETHNIC GROUPS.

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS ETHNIC GROUPS [M01.686.754]
  • African Continental Ancestry Group [M01.686.508.100]
    • African Americans [M01.686.508.100.100]
  • American Native Continental Ancestry Group [M01.686.508.150]
    • Indians, Central American [M01.686.508.150.575]
    • Indians, North American [M01.686.508.150.600]
    • Indians, South American [M01.686.508.150.625]
    • Inuits [M01.686.508.150.675]
  • Asian Continental Ancestry Group [M01.686.508.200]
    • Asian Americans [M01.686.508.200.100]
  • European Continental Ancestry Group [M01.686.508.400]
  • Oceanic Ancestry Group [M01.686.508.600]
  • African Americans [M01.686.754.100]
  • Amish [M01.686.754.133]
  • Arabs [M01.686.754.167]
  • Asian Americans [M01.686.754.225]
  • Gypsies [M01.686.754.283]
  • Hispanic Americans [M01.686.754.441]
    • Mexican Americans [M01.686.754.441.500]
  • Inuits [M01.686.754.520]
  • Jews [M01.686.754.600]

 

Last Reviewed: March 10, 2015