"Patient-Centered Care" 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.
Design of patient care wherein institutional resources and personnel are organized around patients rather than around specialized departments. (From Hospitals 1993 Feb 5;67(3):14)
| Descriptor ID |
D018802
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N04.590.233.727.407
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| Concept/Terms |
Medical Home- Medical Home
- Home, Medical
- Homes, Medical
- Medical Homes
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Patient-Centered Care".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Patient-Centered Care".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Patient-Centered Care" by people in this website by year, and whether "Patient-Centered Care" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2007 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2008 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2009 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2010 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2011 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2012 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2013 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 2014 | 9 | 1 | 10 |
| 2015 | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| 2016 | 7 | 6 | 13 |
| 2017 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 2018 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2019 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| 2020 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 2021 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2023 | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Patient-Centered Care" by people in Profiles.
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The First International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) Standard Dataset for Reporting Outcomes in Heart Valve Disease: Moving From Device- to Patient-Centered Outcomes: Developed by a multisociety taskforce coordinated by the Heart Valve Society (HVS) including the American Heart Association (AHA), the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), the Australian & New Zealand Society of Cardiac & Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS), the International Society for Applied Cardiovascular Biology (ISACB), the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS), the South African Heart Association (SHA), Heart Valve Voice, and Global Heart Hub. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2025 Mar; 18(3):e000128.
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Creating effective teams and valuing patient-centered care to change culture and improve equity on labor and delivery: a qualitative study. BMC Health Serv Res. 2024 Dec 23; 24(1):1645.
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Editorial: (Re)defining hypothyroidism: the key to patient-centered treatment. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2024; 15:1369723.
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The Evolving Landscape of Perioperative Medicine. Anesthesiol Clin. 2024 Mar; 42(1):xv-xvi.
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Developing an Integrated Longitudinal Dataset for Patient-Centered Outcome Measures in Cost-Related Medication Nonadherence. Med Care. 2023 12 01; 61(12 Suppl 2):S139-S146.
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Advancing Data Capacity for Economic Outcomes in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: Challenges and Opportunities. Med Care. 2023 12 01; 61(12 Suppl 2):S161-S165.
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Mifepristone implementation in primary care: Clinician and staff insights from a pilot learning collaborative. Contraception. 2024 02; 130:110280.
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Automated Matching of Patients to Clinical Trials: A Patient-Centric Natural Language Processing Approach for Pediatric Leukemia. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2023 07; 7:e2300009.
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A patient-centered approach to learning social determinants of health for first year medical students. Med Teach. 2023 11; 45(11):1263-1267.
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Patient-centered, self-funding dose optimization trials as a route to reduce toxicity, lower cost, and improve access to cancer therapy. Ann Oncol. 2023 08; 34(8):638-644.