"Advance Care Planning" 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.
Discussions with patients and/or their representatives about the goals and desired direction of the patient's care, particularly end-of-life care, in the event that the patient is or becomes incompetent to make decisions.
| Descriptor ID |
D032722
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N04.590.233.624.124
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Advance Care Planning" by people in Profiles.
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Advance Care Planning With Black Women with Breast Cancer: A Community Health Worker Model. Cancer Control. 2023 Jan-Dec; 30:10732748231162479.
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Non-Concordance between Patient and Clinician Estimates of Prognosis in Advanced Heart Failure. J Card Fail. 2021 06; 27(6):700-705.
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Advance care planning among African American patients on haemodialysis and their end-of-life care preferences. J Ren Care. 2021 Dec; 47(4):265-278.
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End-of-Life Care among US Adults with ESKD Who Were Waitlisted or Received a Kidney Transplant, 2005-2014. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2020 10; 31(10):2424-2433.
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Evaluation of a Novel Educational Intervention to Improve Conversations About Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators Management in Patients with Advanced Heart Failure. J Palliat Med. 2020 12; 23(12):1619-1625.
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Advance Care Planning and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". JAMA Intern Med. 2020 06 01; 180(6):813-814.
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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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Clinician Use of Advance Care Planning Billing Codes among Privately Insured Patients in 2016. J Palliat Med. 2019 11; 22(11):1304-1305.
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Use of Advance Care Planning Billing Codes in a Retrospective Cohort of Privately Insured Patients. J Gen Intern Med. 2019 11; 34(11):2307-2309.
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Improving Communication in Heart Failure Patient Care. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2019 10 01; 74(13):1682-1692.