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Contracts

Agreements between two or more parties, especially those that are written and enforceable by law (American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed). It is sometimes used to characterize the nature of the professional-patient relationship.

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Abstract

Agreements between two or more parties, especially those that are written and enforceable by law (American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed). It is sometimes used to characterize the nature of the professional-patient relationship.

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1 entry terms
  • Contract

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8 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

CONTRACT SERVICES is also available

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History Note

2003

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  1. I01w.880w.604.583w.090w
  2. N03w.706.535w.241w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Contracts. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D032982. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D032982
  2. Contracts. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract
  3. Contracts. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93288