"Hospices" 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.
Facilities or services which are especially devoted to providing palliative and supportive care to the patient with a terminal illness and to the patient's family.
| Descriptor ID |
D006738
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N02.278.421.556.185 N02.421.143.550
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Hospices" by people in Profiles.
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Assessment of the effects of a multi-component, individualized physiotherapy program in patients receiving hospice services in the home. BMC Palliat Care. 2020 Jul 09; 19(1):101.
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A Stepped-Wedge Randomized Controlled Trial: Effects of eHealth Interventions for Pain Control Among Adults With Cancer in Hospice. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2020 03; 59(3):626-636.
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Determining the Association Between End-of-Life Care Resources and Patient Outcomes in Pennsylvania ICUs. Crit Care Med. 2019 11; 47(11):1591-1598.
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Association of Physician Specialty with Hospice Referral for Hospitalized Nursing Home Patients with Advanced Dementia. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2017 Aug; 65(8):1784-1788.
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Palliative Care for the Geriatric Anesthesiologist. Anesthesiol Clin. 2015 Sep; 33(3):591-605.
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Physician factors associated with discussions about end-of-life care. Cancer. 2010 Feb 15; 116(4):998-1006.
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The lack of effect of market structure on hospice use. Health Serv Res. 2002 Dec; 37(6):1531-51.
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Care after the onset of serious illness: a novel claims-based dataset exploiting substantial cross-set linkages to study end-of-life care. J Palliat Med. 2002 Aug; 5(4):515-29.