"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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Advance Directives" by people in Profiles.
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Care preferences in physician orders for life sustaining treatment in California nursing homes. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 07; 70(7):2040-2050.
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Improving the Adoption of Advance Directives in Primary Care Practices. J Am Board Fam Med. 2019 Mar-Apr; 32(2):168-179.
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Advance Care Planning in the Outpatient Geriatric Medicine Setting. Prim Care. 2017 Sep; 44(3):511-518.
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Room for improvement: An examination of advance care planning documentation among gynecologic oncology patients. Gynecol Oncol. 2016 09; 142(3):525-30.
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Use of the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment among California Nursing Home Residents. J Gen Intern Med. 2016 10; 31(10):1119-26.
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Essentials of hospice: what every Oklahoma physician needs to know, Part II. J Okla State Med Assoc. 2005 Jan; 98(1):9-11.
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Essentials of hospice: what every Oklahoma physician needs to know, Part I. J Okla State Med Assoc. 2004 Dec; 97(12):534-7.
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The effect of discussions about advance directives on patients' satisfaction with primary care. J Gen Intern Med. 2001 Jan; 16(1):32-40.
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Effectiveness of computer-generated reminders for increasing discussions about advance directives and completion of advance directive forms. A randomized, controlled trial. Ann Intern Med. 1998 Jan 15; 128(2):102-10.
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Characteristics of patients receiving or foregoing resuscitation at the time of cardiopulmonary arrest. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1997 Sep; 45(9):1118-22.