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Descriptor English: Professional Impairment
Descriptor Spanish: Inhabilitación Profesional
Descriptor incapacidad profesional
Entry term(s) deficiencia profesional
Scope note: Incapacidad de un profesional sanitario para proporcionar la atención adecuada a los pacientes por deficiencia física o mental.
Descriptor Portuguese: Inabilitação Profissional
Descriptor French: Incapacité professionnelle
Entry term(s): Impairment, Professional
Impairments, Professional
Professional Impairments
Tree number(s): I01.880.604.583.524.528
N03.706.535.606.528
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011363
Scope note: The inability of a health professional to provide proper professional care of patients due to his or her physical and/or mental disability.
Annotation: for impairment see note on PHYSICIAN IMPAIRMENT; coord IM with specific impairment (IM) + specific profession (IM)
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
Previous Indexing: Alcoholism (1966-1985)
Substance Dependence (1981-1985)
Public MeSH Note: 86
History Note: 86
DeCS ID: 16923
Unique ID: D011363
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1986/01/01
Date of Entry: 1985/03/15
Revision Date: 1992/05/18
Professional Impairment - Preferred
Concept UI M0017654
Scope note The inability of a health professional to provide proper professional care of patients due to his or her physical and/or mental disability.
Preferred term Professional Impairment
Entry term(s) Impairment, Professional
Impairments, Professional
Professional Impairments



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