"Advance Directives" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Declarations by patients, made in advance of a situation in which they may be incompetent to decide about their own care, stating their treatment preferences or authorizing a third party to make decisions for them. (Bioethics Thesaurus)
| Descriptor ID |
D016223
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.880.604.583.020 N03.706.535.020 N04.590.233.624.124.050
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| Concept/Terms |
Advance Directives- Advance Directives
- Advance Directive
- Directive, Advance
- Directives, Advance
Psychiatric Wills- Psychiatric Wills
- Psychiatric Will
- Will, Psychiatric
- Wills, Psychiatric
- Ulysses Contracts
- Contract, Ulysses
- Contracts, Ulysses
- Ulysses Contract
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Advance Directives" by people in this website by year, and whether "Advance Directives" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 1995 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 1996 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1998 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 1999 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2000 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2001 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2002 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| 2003 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2004 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2007 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2009 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2010 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2011 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2013 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 2016 | 8 | 1 | 9 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2020 | 8 | 8 | 16 |
| 2021 | 1 | 11 | 12 |
| 2022 | 1 | 15 | 16 |
| 2023 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| 2024 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Advance Directives" by people in Profiles.
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A Resident-Led Quality Improvement Initiative to Increase End-of-Life Planning in Primary Care. J Grad Med Educ. 2024 Oct; 16(5):596-600.
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Association Between Patient Portal Activities and End-of-Life Outcomes Among Deceased Patients in the Last 12 Months of Life. J Palliat Med. 2024 Jul; 27(7):916-921.
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Feasibility and Effectiveness of Virtual Group Advance Care Planning Visits During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2024 Oct; 41(10):1238-1245.
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Beyond Code Status. N Engl J Med. 2024 Apr 25; 390(16):1451-1453.
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Future policy and research for advance care planning in dementia: consensus recommendations from an international Delphi panel of the European Association for Palliative Care. Lancet Healthy Longev. 2024 May; 5(5):e370-e378.
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"Terminal anorexia nervosa" may not be terminal: An empirical evaluation. J Psychopathol Clin Sci. 2024 Apr; 133(3):285-296.
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Bolstering Advance Care Planning Measurement Using Natural Language Processing. J Palliat Med. 2024 04; 27(4):447-450.
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What Clinicians and Researchers Should Know About the Evolving Field of Advance Care Planning: a Narrative Review. J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Mar; 39(4):652-660.
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Scalp Swelling, a Proxy for "Birth Trauma," Is Not Associated With Neonatal Brain Injury. Neurology. 2023 Dec 04; 101(23):1037-1038.
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Early Integrated Palliative Care Within a Surgical Oncology Clinic. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 11 01; 6(11):e2341928.