"Beneficence" 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.
The state or quality of being kind, charitable, or beneficial. (from American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed). The ethical principle of BENEFICENCE requires producing net benefit over harm. (Bioethics Thesaurus)
| Descriptor ID |
D026686
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| MeSH Number(s) |
K01.752.566.479.830.500 N05.350.958.500
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Beneficence" by people in Profiles.
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Ethics of Transition of Care of Pediatric Surgical Patients to Adult Providers. J Pediatr Surg. 2025 Apr; 60(4):162228.
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What Do We Owe Our Patients? Surgeon Obligations When Patients Are Too Sick for Surgery. J Am Coll Surg. 2024 Oct 01; 239(4):394-399.
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Fear of Dementia and the Obligation to Provide Aggregate Research Results to Study Participants. Camb Q Healthc Ethics. 2022 10; 31(4):498-505.
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You Can't Have One Without the Other: Innovation and Ethical Dilemmas in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2021 10; 19(10):2015-2019.
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Ethics Implications of the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Violence Risk Assessment. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2020 Sep; 48(3):345-349.
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Developing an ethics framework for living donor transplantation. J Med Ethics. 2018 12; 44(12):843-850.
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Should Physicians Attempt to Persuade a Patient to Accept a Compromised Organ for Transplant? AMA J Ethics. 2016 Feb 01; 18(2):101-7.
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The Ethics of Disclosure and Counseling of Patients With Thyroid Cancer. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2015 Nov; 141(11):957-8.
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The neuroscience of implicit moral evaluation and its relation to generosity in early childhood. Curr Biol. 2015 Jan 05; 25(1):93-7.
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Eleanor Roosevelt's last days: a bioethical case study. Am J Med. 2015 Apr; 128(4):437-40.