Health Care

Quaternary Prevention

Actions taken to protect individuals (i.e. persons/patients) from unnecessary medical interventions that are likely to cause more harm than good.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

Actions taken to protect individuals (i.e. persons/patients) from unnecessary medical interventions that are likely to cause more harm than good.

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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • Prevention, Quaternary
  • Preventions, Quaternary
  • Quaternary Preventions

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Aspects Covered

11 allowable subheadings

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

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History Note

2020

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Tree Numbers

  1. N02.421.726.784w
  2. N04w.590.374w.675w
  3. N05.300w.703w
  4. N06.850w.780.715w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Quaternary Prevention. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000081404. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000081404
  2. Quaternary Prevention. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_prevention
  3. Quaternary Prevention. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1858805