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Label	Id	Description
Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems	D016490	[A concept, developed in 1983 under the aegis of and supported by the National Library of Medicine under the name of Integrated Academic Information Management Systems, to provide professionals in academic health sciences centers and health sciences institutions with convenient access to an integrated and comprehensive network of knowledge. It addresses a wide cross-section of users from administrators and faculty to students and clinicians and has applications to planning, clinical and managerial decision-making, teaching, and research. It provides access to various types of clinical, management, educational, etc., databases, as well as to research and bibliographic databases. In August 1992 the name was changed from Integrated Academic Information Management Systems to Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems to reflect use beyond the academic milieu.]
Information Systems	D007256	[Integrated set of files, procedures, and equipment for the storage, manipulation, and retrieval of information.]
Peripheral Vascular Diseases	D016491	[Pathological processes involving any one of the BLOOD VESSELS in the vasculature outside the HEART.]
Computer Security	D016494	[Protective measures against unauthorized access to or interference with computer operating systems, telecommunications, or accompanying data; especially the modification, deletion, destruction, or release of data in computers. It includes methods of forestalling interference by computer viruses or computer hackers aiming to compromise stored data.]
Security Measures	D012637	[Regulations to assure protection of property and equipment.]
Computing Methodologies	D003205	[Computer-assisted analysis and processing of problems in a particular area.]
Needle Sharing	D016485	[Usage of a single needle among two or more people for injecting drugs. Needle sharing is a high-risk behavior for contracting infectious disease.]
Parenting	D016487	[Performing the role of a parent by care-giving, nurturance, and protection of the child by a natural or substitute parent. The parent supports the child by exercising authority and through consistent, empathic, appropriate behavior in response to the child's needs. PARENTING differs from CHILD REARING in that in child rearing the emphasis is on the act of training or bringing up the children and the interaction between the parent and child, while parenting emphasizes the responsibility and qualities of exemplary behavior of the parent.]
Medicine, African Traditional	D016488	[A system of traditional medicine which is based on the beliefs and practices of the African peoples. It includes treatment by medicinal plants and other materia medica as well as by the ministrations of diviners, medicine men, witch doctors, and sorcerers.]
Medicine, Traditional	D008519	[Systems of medicine based on cultural beliefs and practices handed down from generation to generation. The concept includes mystical and magical rituals (SPIRITUAL THERAPIES); PHYTOTHERAPY; and other treatments which may not be explained by modern medicine.]
Spiritual Therapies	D026443	[Practice of evicting demons or other spiritual entities from a person or area believed to be possessed., Mystical, religious, or spiritual practices performed for health benefit.]
Wounds, Nonpenetrating	D014949	[Injuries caused by impact with a blunt object where there is no penetration of the skin.]
Police	D016495	[Agents of the law charged with the responsibility of maintaining and enforcing law and order among the citizenry.]
Emergency Responders	D060731	[Personnel trained to provide the initial services, care, and support in EMERGENCIES or DISASTERS.]
Incontinence Pads	D016496	[Absorbent pads used for URINARY INCONTINENCE and usually worn as underpants or pants liners by the ELDERLY.]
Absorbent Pads	D041342	[Pads made of various materials used for personal hygiene usually for absorbing URINE or FECES. They can be worn as underpants or pants liners by various age groups, from NEWBORNS to the ELDERLY. Absorbent pads can be made of fluff wood pulp and HYDROGEL absorbent covered with viscose rayon, polyester, polypropylene, or POLYETHYLENE coverstock.]
Adolescent Health Services	D016497	[Organized services to provide health care to adolescents, ages ranging from 13 through 18 years.]
Health Services	D006296	[Services for the diagnosis and treatment of disease and the maintenance of health.]
Radioimmunotherapy	D016499	[Radiotherapy where cytotoxic radionuclides are linked to antibodies in order to deliver toxins directly to tumor targets. Therapy with targeted radiation rather than antibody-targeted toxins (IMMUNOTOXINS) has the advantage that adjacent tumor cells, which lack the appropriate antigenic determinants, can be destroyed by radiation cross-fire. Radioimmunotherapy is sometimes called targeted radiotherapy, but this latter term can also refer to radionuclides linked to non-immune molecules (see RADIOTHERAPY).]
Combined Modality Therapy	D003131	[The treatment of a disease or condition by several different means simultaneously or sequentially. Chemoimmunotherapy, RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY, chemoradiotherapy, cryochemotherapy, and SALVAGE THERAPY are seen most frequently, but their combinations with each other and surgery are also used.]