"Waiting Lists" 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.
Prospective patient listings for appointments or treatments.
| Descriptor ID |
D014850
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N04.452.095.738
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| Concept/Terms |
Waiting Lists- Waiting Lists
- List, Waiting
- Lists, Waiting
- Waiting List
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Waiting Lists".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Waiting Lists".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Waiting Lists" by people in this website by year, and whether "Waiting Lists" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2005 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2006 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2007 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2009 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2010 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2015 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 2018 | 3 | 8 | 11 |
| 2019 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2020 | 6 | 9 | 15 |
| 2021 | 1 | 11 | 12 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 | 11 | 12 |
| 2024 | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| 2025 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2026 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Waiting Lists" by people in Profiles.
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Beyond Categorical Tiers: Improving Measurement of Medical Urgency as the Foundation for Heart Allocation Reform. J Card Fail. 2026 Sep; 32(9):1584-1593.
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Potential Impact of the OPTN Status Escalation Policy for Adult Heart Transplant Candidates With Durable LVADs. Circ Heart Fail. 2026 Jul; 19(7):e013854.
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High Rate of Transplantation Before Review of Status Exception Requests Among Adult Heart Transplant Candidates. Circ Heart Fail. 2026 Jul; 19(7):e013994.
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Early Trends After Safety Net Policy Introduction for Kidney After Lung Transplantation. Chest. 2026 Sep; 170(3):778-795.
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Status Exceptions and Misalignment of Medical Urgency in U.S. Pediatric Heart Transplantation. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2026 Jun 09; 87(22):3157-3168.
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Variability in Status 1 Exception Practices and Candidate Outcomes After the 2018 US Heart Allocation Changes. J Card Fail. 2026 Sep; 32(9):1501-1513.
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Association between listing hemodynamics and heart transplantation waitlist outcomes: An analysis of the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2026 03; 45(3):350-362.
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Variations in liver allocation systems across continents with a focus on MELD exceptions. Liver Transpl. 2026 May 01; 32(5):748-764.
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The association of place-based disadvantage and access to deceased donor heart transplantation. Am J Transplant. 2026 Feb; 26(2):393-403.
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Development of a risk score predicting survival after adult heart transplantation in the United States. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2025 Dec; 44(12):1874-1882.