List of MeSH codes (N04)

The following is a partial list of the "N" codes for Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), as defined by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM).

This list continues the information at List of MeSH codes (N03). Codes following these are found at List of MeSH codes (N05). For other MeSH codes, see List of MeSH codes.

The source for this content is the set of 2006 MeSH Trees from the NLM.

– organization and administration

 * – annual reports
 * – appointments and schedules
 * – waiting lists
 * – shared medical appointments
 * – clinical goverance
 * – committee membership
 * – constitution and bylaws
 * – organizational decision making
 * – efficiency
 * – organizational efficiency
 * – eligibility determination
 * – facilities and service utilization
 * – emergency room visits
 * – fee schedules
 * – relative value scales
 * – governing board
 * – trustees
 * – hospital facility administration
 * – hospital administration
 * – hospital ancillary services
 * – centralized hospital services
 * – hospital financial management
 * – hospital communication systems
 * – hospital departments
 * – hospital admitting department
 * – hospital anesthesia department
 * – hospital cardiology service
 * – hospital central supply
 * – hospital chaplaincy service
 * – hospital dental service
 * – hospital education department
 * – hospital emergency service
 * – trauma centers
 * – hospital food service
 * – hospital housekeeping
 * – hospital laboratories
 * – hospital laundry service
 * – hospital maintenance and engineering
 * – hospital medical records department
 * – morgue
 * – hospital nursing service
 * – hospital obstetrics and gynecology department
 * – hospital occupational therapy department
 * – hospital oncology service
 * – hospital outpatient clinics
 * – pain clinics
 * – hospital pathology department
 * – hospital personnel administration
 * – hospital pharmacy service
 * – hospital physical therapy department
 * – hospital psychiatric department
 * – hospital purchasing
 * – group purchasing
 * – hospital radiology department
 * – hospital respiratory therapy department
 * – hospital social work department
 * – hospital surgery department
 * – hospital urology department
 * – hospital distribution systems
 * – hospital-patient relations
 * – hospital-physician relations
 * – medical staff privileges
 * – hospital restructuring
 * – hospital-physician joint ventures
 * – physician self-referral
 * – hospital shared services
 * – hospital shops
 * – hospital libraries
 * – hospital materials management
 * – hospital inventories
 * – hospital medication systems
 * – hospital nuclear medicine department
 * – product line management
 * – institutional management teams
 * – management audit
 * – benchmarking
 * – management information systems
 * – clinical laboratory information systems
 * – clinical pharmacy information systems
 * – database management systems
 * – dashboard systems
 * – management decision support systems
 * – healthcare common procedure coding system
 * – hospital information systems
 * – ambulatory care information systems
 * – medical order entry systems
 * – operating room information systems
 * – point-of-care systems
 * – office automation
 * – word processing
 * – personnel staffing and scheduling information systems
 * – radiology information systems
 * – teleradiology
 * – mandatory programs
 * – workforce
 * – health workforce
 * – medication systems
 * – medication reconcilliation
 * – medication review
 * – hospital medication systems
 * – military health services
 * – organizational models
 * – multi-institutional systems
 * – hospital shared services
 * – organizational affiliation
 * – transfer agreement
 * – organizational culture
 * – organizational innovation
 * – change management
 * – entrepreneurship
 * – organizational objectives
 * – ownership
 * – private sector
 * – privatization
 * – public sector
 * – patient identification systems
 * – health smart cards
 * – radio frequency identification device
 * – personnel management
 * – collective bargaining
 * – employee discipline
 * – employee grievances
 * – employee incentive plans
 * – employee performance appraisal
 * – job application
 * – job description
 * – leadership
 * – management quality circles
 * – negotiating
 * – hospital personnel administration
 * – personnel delegation
 * – personnel downsizing
 * – personnel loyalty
 * – personnel selection
 * – personnel staffing and scheduling
 * – shift work schedule
 * – teleworking
 * – work-life balance
 * – work schedule tolerance
 * – workload
 * – personnel turnover
 * – physician incentive plans
 * – salaries and fringe benefits
 * – family leave
 * – parental leave
 * – employee health benefit plans
 * – employee retirement income security act
 * – sick leave
 * – staff development
 * – employee strikes
 * – work engagement
 * – physician engagement
 * – workplace
 * – working conditions
 * – workforce diversity
 * – pharmacy administration
 * – drug and narcotic control
 * – drug recalls
 * – safety based drug withdrawals
 * – drug utilization
 * – drug utilization review
 * – antimicrobial stewardship
 * – planning techniques
 * – strategic planning
 * – professional practice
 * – group practice
 * – dental group practice
 * – prepaid group practice
 * – health maintenance organizations
 * – independent practice associations
 * – hospital-physician relations
 * – medical staff privileges
 * – house calls
 * – institutional practice
 * – management service organizations
 * – nursing
 * – private duty nursing
 * – supervisory nursing
 * – office nursing
 * – telenursing
 * – travel nursing
 * – nursing faculty practice
 * – office visits
 * – no-show patients
 * – partnership practice
 * – dental partnership practice
 * – practice management
 * – office management
 * – forms and records control
 * – dental practice management
 * – medical practice management
 * – concierge medicine
 * – veterinary practice management
 * – practice valuation and purchase
 * – private practice
 * – fee-for-service plans
 * – independent practice associations
 * – professional autonomy
 * – professional corporations
 * – professional practice location
 * – professional staff committees
 * – ethics committees
 * – clinical ethics committees
 * – research ethics committees
 * – pharmacy and therapeutics committee
 * – referral and consultation
 * – ethics consultation
 * – gatekeeping
 * – physician self-referral
 * – remote consultation
 * – distance counseling
 * – secondary care
 * – tertiary healthcare
 * – program development
 * – public health administration
 * – public relations
 * – anniversaries and special events
 * – community-institutional relations
 * – hospital-patient relations
 * – hospital-physician relations
 * – interdepartmental relations
 * – interinstitutional relations
 * – patient satisfaction
 * – patient preference
 * – records
 * – birth certificates
 * – consent forms
 * – death certificates
 * – dental records
 * – diet records
 * – hospital records
 * – medical records
 * – healthcare administrative claims
 * – clinical coding
 * – medical record linkage
 * – problem-oriented medical records
 * – computerized medical records systems
 * – electronic health records
 * – medical order entry systems
 * – patient discharge summaries
 * – trauma severity indices
 * – abbreviated injury scale
 * – glasgow coma scale
 * – glasgow outcome scale
 * – injury severity score
 * – nursing records
 * – registries
 * – seer program
 * – risk management
 * – risk assessment
 * – adverse outcome pathways
 * – healthcare failure mode and effect analysis
 * – risk adjustment
 * – risk evaluation and mitigation
 * – financial risk sharing
 * – safety management
 * – material safety data sheet
 * – security measures
 * – biometric identification
 * – automated facial recognition
 * – dermatoglypics
 * – DNA fingerprinting
 * – biosecurity
 * – computer security
 * – blockchain
 * – data anonymization
 * – nursing shared governance
 * – time management
 * – total quality management
 * – veterans health services
 * – voluntary programs

– patient care management

 * – comprehensive health care
 * – comprehensive dental care
 * – nursing process
 * – nursing assessment
 * – nursing diagnosis
 * – nursing research
 * – 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
 * – primary health care
 * – continuity of patient care
 * – aftercare
 * – patient discharge
 * – patient handoff
 * – patient transfer
 * – transition to adult care
 * – transitional care
 * – patient-centered care
 * – narrative medicine
 * – patient navigation
 * – refusal to treat
 * – conscientious refusal to treat
 * – progressive patient care
 * – healthcare crew resource management
 * – delivery of health care
 * – after-hours care
 * – answering services
 * – professional delegation
 * – integrated delivery of health care
 * – provider-sponsored organizations
 * – health care reform
 * – 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
 * – remote consultation
 * – telepathology
 * – teleradiology
 * – uncompensated care
 * – disease management
 * – patient care team
 * – team nursing
 * – patient selection
 * – point-of-care systems

– quality of health care

 * – advance directive adherence
 * – clinical competence
 * – guideline adherence
 * – outcome and process assessment (health care)
 * – outcome assessment (health care)
 * – patient outcome assessment
 * – treatment outcome
 * – treatment failure
 * – watchful waiting
 * – process assessment (health care)
 * – health care peer review
 * – professional review organizations
 * – program evaluation
 * – benchmarking
 * – health care quality assurance
 * – health personnel alert fatigue
 * – benchmarking
 * – clinical audit
 * – dental audit
 * – medical audit
 * – commission on professional and hospital activities
 * – nursing audit
 * – guidelines
 * – codes of ethics
 * – practice guidelines
 * – laboratory proficiency testing
 * – healthcare near miss
 * – potentially inappropriate medication list
 * – healthcare timeout
 * – total quality management
 * – quality improvement
 * – meaningful use
 * – value-based health insurance
 * – health care quality indicators
 * – risk adjustment
 * – standard of care
 * – utilization review
 * – concurrent review
 * – drug utilization review

– universal healthcare
The list continues at List of MeSH codes (N05).