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Qualifier English: diet therapy
Qualifier Spanish: dietoterapia
Descriptor dietoterapia
Scope note: Usado con descriptores de enfermedades para el control dietético y nutricional de las mismas. El concepto no incluye suplementos de vitaminas o minerales, para los que debe utilizarse el calificador /farmacoterapia.
Qualifier Portuguese: dietoterapia
Qualifier French: diétothérapie
Entry term(s): dietary management
nutritional management
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/Q000178
Scope note: Used with disease headings for dietary and nutritional management of the disease. The concept does not include vitamin or mineral supplements, for which "drug therapy" may be used.
Annotation: subhead only; for dietary & nutritional management of a disease by a physician; not for self diets; not for vitamin or mineral supplements prescribed by a physician ( = /drug therapy); indexing policy: Manual 19.8.24; DF: /diet ther or /DH
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Online Note: search policy: Online Manual; use: main heading/DH or DH (SH) or SUBS APPLY DH
History Note: 75; used with Category C & F3 1975 forward
Entry Version: DIET THER
Abbreviation: DH
DeCS ID: 22017
Unique ID: Q000178
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Date Established: 1975/01/01
Date of Entry: 1974/10/23
Revision Date: 2015/12/15
diet therapy - Preferred
Concept UI M0030367
Scope note Used with disease headings for dietary and nutritional management of the disease. The concept does not include vitamin or mineral supplements, for which "drug therapy" may be used.
Preferred term diet therapy
Entry term(s) dietary management
nutritional management



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