Health Care

Guideline Adherence

Conformity in fulfilling or following official, recognized, or institutional requirements, guidelines, recommendations, protocols, pathways, or other standards.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

Conformity in fulfilling or following official, recognized, or institutional requirements, guidelines, recommendations, protocols, pathways, or other standards.

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Synonyms

7 entry terms
  • Adherence, Guideline
  • Institutional Adherence
  • Policy Compliance
  • Protocol Compliance
  • Adherence, Institutional
  • Compliance, Policy
  • Compliance, Protocol

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Aspects Covered

9 allowable subheadings

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

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Indexing Annotation

by organization, health facility or facility personnel; coord with GUIDELINES AS TOPIC or PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC if pertinent; for patient adherence to guidelines of care use PATIENT COMPLIANCE

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History Note

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Tree Numbers

  1. N04w.761w.337
  2. N05.715w.360.395

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Guideline Adherence. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D019983. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D019983
  2. Guideline Adherence. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70453173