 Advance Directives
"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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| 1991 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1992 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1993 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 1994 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1996 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 1998 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1999 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2000 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2008 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2013 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2019 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2020 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Advance Directives" by people in Profiles.
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Sperry BP, Doyle CK, Kramer DB, Dudzinski DM, Sulmasy DP, Siegler M, Mueller PS, DeMartino ES. Decision-making Laws for "Unrepresented" Patients. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2020 11; 17(11):1484-1486.
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Gelfman LP, Sudore RL, Mather H, McKendrick K, Hutchinson MD, Lampert RJ, Lipman HI, Matlock DD, Swetz KM, Pinney SP, Morrison RS, Goldstein NE. Prognostic Awareness and Goals of Care Discussions Among Patients With Advanced Heart Failure. Circ Heart Fail. 2020 09; 13(9):e006502.
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Sulmasy DP. We Need More Wisdom, Not More Paper: A Reply to Merel and Gaster. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 07; 68(7):1609-1610.
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Sulmasy DP. Why Dementia-Specific Advance Directives Are a Misguided Idea. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 07; 68(7):1603-1605.
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DeMartino ES, Sperry BP, Doyle CK, Chor J, Kramer DB, Dudzinski DM, Mueller PS. US State Regulation of Decisions for Pregnant Women Without Decisional Capacity. JAMA. 2019 04 23; 321(16):1629-1631.
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Rhodes RL, Ukoha NCE, Williams KA, Elwood B, Knox-Rice T, Lee SC, Tiro JA, Skinner CS, Halm EA. Understanding Underuse of Advance Care Planning Among a Cohort of African American Patients With Advanced Cancer: Formative Research That Examines Gaps in Intent to Discuss Options for Care. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2019 Dec; 36(12):1057-1062.
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Sulmasy DP. Italy's New Advance Directive Law: When in Rome…. JAMA Intern Med. 2018 05 01; 178(5):607-608.
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DeMartino ES, Wordingham SE, Stulak JM, Boilson BA, Fuechtmann KR, Singh N, Sulmasy DP, Pajaro OE, Mueller PS. Ethical Analysis of Withdrawing Total Artificial Heart Support. Mayo Clin Proc. 2017 05; 92(5):719-725.
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Turnbull AE, Hayes MM, Hashem MD, Needham DM. Interactive Online Module Failed to Improve Sustained Knowledge of the Maryland Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Form. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2016 06; 13(6):926-32.
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Ho GW, Skaggs L, Yenokyan G, Kellogg A, Johnson JA, Lee MC, Heinze K, Hughes MT, Sulmasy DP, Kub J, Terry PB, Astrow AB, Zheng J, Lehmann LS, Nolan MT. Patient and caregiver characteristics related to completion of advance directives in terminally ill patients. Palliat Support Care. 2017 02; 15(1):12-19.
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