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WX Hospitals and Other Health Facilities
	WX 1-100 Reference Works. General Works
	WX 140-147 Facility Design and Construction. Equipment
	WX 150-190 Hospital Administration
	WX 200-225 Clinical Departments and Units
	Reference Works. General Works

WX 1	Societies (Cutter from name of society) (Used for both monographs and serials)
	Includes ephemeral membership lists issued serially or separately. Classify substantial lists with directories. Classify annual reports, journals, etc., in W1.

WX 2	Serial hospital reports (Table G) (Used for both monographs and serials)
	Classify here hospital administrative reports and statistics. Classify clinical material, e.g., Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Guy's Hospital Reports, etc., in W1. Classify administrative reports and statistics of several hospitals under governmental administration in W2.
	Collected works (General)
WX 5	By several authors
WX 7	By individual authors

WX 9	Addresses. Essays. Lectures (General)

WX 11	General history of hospitals and the hospital movement (Table G)
	Cf. WX 27-28 History of individual hospitals or groups of individual hospitals. Classify history of emergency or ambulance services in WX 215.
WX 11.1	General coverage (Not Table G)

WX 13	Dictionaries. Encyclopedias (Used for both monographs and serials)

WX 15	Classification. Terminology (Used for both monographs and serials)
	Classify works on accreditation and standards in WX 40.

WX 16	Tables. Statistics (Used for both monographs and serials)

WX 17	Atlases. Pictorial works

WX 18	Education
	Classify here works about education.

WX 18.2	Educational materials (Used for both monographs and serials)
	Classify here educational materials, e.g., outlines, questions and answers, programmed instruction, catalogs, computer-assisted instruction, etc., regardless of format. Classify textbooks, regardless of format, by subject.

WX 19	Schools, departments, and faculties of hospital administration (Used for both monographs and serials)

WX 20	Research (General)
	Classify here works about research in general. Classify works about research on a particular subject by subject.

[WX 21]	[This number not used]
	Classify hospital administration as a career in WX 155.

WX 22	Directories (Table G) (Used for both monographs and serials)
WX 22.1	General coverage (Not Table G) (Used for both monographs and serials)

[WX 26]	[This number not used]
	Classify works on equipment and supplies in WX 147. Classify catalogs in W 26.

WX 26.5	Informatics. Automatic data processing. Computers (General)
	Classify works on use for special subjects by subject.
	Hospitals and medical centers. Health facilities (General)
	Classify here non-serial hospital reports. Classify serial reports in WX 2. Classify reports of army hospitals in UH 470-475; on those of naval hospitals in VG 410-450. Classify works on special types of hospitals or of specialized departments of general hospitals in the appropriate schedule for the field, e.g., isolation hospitals in WC 27-28. Classify works on psychiatric departments of general hospitals in WM 27-28, etc.
WX 27	Collective (Table G)
WX 27.1	General coverage (Not Table G)
WX 28	Individual (Cutter from name of hospital) (Table G)
	Museums, exhibitions, etc.
WX 28.5	Collective
WX 28.55	Individual (Cutter from name of museum, etc.)
	Hospices and hospice care programs
WX 28.6	Collective (Table G)
WX 28.61	General coverage (Not Table G)
WX 28.62	Individual (Table G)

WX 29	Day care centers and programs (Table G)
WX 29.1	General coverage (Not Table G)
	Cf. WA 310-320 Child day care centers; WT 29-29.1 Geriatric day care centers; WX 205 Hospital outpatient clinics.

WX 32	Laws (Table G) (Used for both monographs and serials)
WX 32.1	General coverage (Not Table G) (Used for both monographs and serials)
WX 33	Discussion of law. (Table G) (Used for both monographs and serials)
WX 33.1	General coverage (Not Table G) (Used for both monographs and serials)

WX 39	Handbooks. Resource guides (Used for both monographs and serials)
	Classify hospital staff manuals in WX 159; those for hospital medical staff only in WX 203.

WX 40	Accreditation. Licensure. Standards (Table G) (Used for both monographs and serials)
WX 40.1	General coverage (Not Table G) (Used for both monographs and serials)

WX 100	General works
	Facility Design and Construction. Equipment

WX 140	Health facility design and construction
	Classify works on special facilities with the specialty.

WX 147	Equipment and supplies
	Classify catalogs in W 26.
	Hospital Administration

WX 150	General works

WX 153	Utilization review. Quality of service. Medical audit

WX 155	Hospital administration as a career. Professional opportunities

WX 157	Financial administration. Business management. Cost accounting
WX 157.4	Multi-institutional systems
WX 157.8	Diagnosis-related groups

WX 158	Hospitalization
	Include here narrative reports on admissions and discharges; also on patient readmissions. Classify works that are largely statistical in WX 16. Classify works on hospitalization insurance in W 160.
WX 158.5	Hospital patients. Attitude and compliance. Satisfaction

WX 159	Hospital personnel administration. Staff manuals. Career literature
	Classify manuals for professional staff only in WX 203.
WX 159.5	Volunteers
	Classify works on professional hospital social work in W 322.
WX 159.8	Collective bargaining in hospital employment

WX 160	Public relations. Inter-institutional relations. Staff relations and attitude

WX 161	Hospital shops

WX 162	Patient care planning. Progressive patient care. Long term care
	Classify here works on hospital care only. For general comprehensive works on patient care planning, use W 84.7-84.8. Classify works limited to nursing care in WY; on long term care of geriatric patients in WT 31.
WX 162.5	Patient care team

WX 165	General housekeeping. Maintenance. Laundries. Environmental control

WX 167	Cross infection prevention and control
	Cf. WC 195 for general works on infection control; WU 29 for dental infection control.

WX 168	Hospital food service

WX 173	Medical records. Medical record administrators
	Cf. WB 290 for works on medical history taking in general.

WX 179	Hospital pharmacy service. Hospital medication systems

WX 185	Safety, fire and disaster programs

WX 187	Chaplaincy service

WX 190	Mobile health units
	Clinical Departments and Units
	Classify works on specialty departments in the hospital number for the specialty, e.g., psychiatric wards in WM 27-28.

WX 200	General works
	Include works on services not indexed elsewhere.

WX 203	Medical personnel. Interns. Staff manuals. Ward manuals and precedent books
	Classify general staff manuals and those for non-professional personnel in WX 159.

WX 205	Hospital outpatient clinics. Ambulatory care facilities
	Cf. WB 101 for works on general ambulatory care.

WX 207	Clinical and pathological laboratories
	Classify works on laboratories not connected with hospitals in QY 23-24.

WX 215	Emergency service. Ambulance service
	Include here works on ambulance and general emergency health services not indexed elsewhere. Cf. WB 105 Medical emergencies. Classify those connected with occupational medicine in WA 400-495.

WX 218	Intensive care units. Critical care (General)
	Cf. WY 154 for works on nursing care. Classify works on critical care in the specialty fields with the specialty, e.g., Cardiac emergencies WG 205; Coronary care units WG 27-28.

[WX 221]	[This number not used]
	Classify X-ray services in WN 27-28.

WX 223	Physical therapy department

WX 225	Occupational therapy department