 Advance Directives
"Advance Directives" 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.
Declarations by patients, made in advance of a situation in which they may be incompetent to decide about their own care, stating their treatment preferences or authorizing a third party to make decisions for them. (Bioethics Thesaurus)
| Descriptor ID |
D016223
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.880.604.583.020 N03.706.535.020 N04.590.233.624.124.050
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| Concept/Terms |
Advance Directives- Advance Directives
- Advance Directive
- Directive, Advance
- Directives, Advance
Psychiatric Wills- Psychiatric Wills
- Psychiatric Will
- Will, Psychiatric
- Wills, Psychiatric
- Ulysses Contracts
- Contract, Ulysses
- Contracts, Ulysses
- Ulysses Contract
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| 2002 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2012 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Advance Directives" by people in Profiles.
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George TP, DeCristofaro C, Murphy PF, Remle CR. Knowledge, Attitudes, and Experience With Advance Directives Among Prelicensure Nursing Students. J Nurs Educ. 2018 Jan 01; 57(1):35-39.
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Mavroudis C, Gaca J, Sade RM. Can a Surgeon Refuse to Operate When an Advance Directive Limits Postoperative Care? Ann Thorac Surg. 2016 Oct; 102(4):1046-50.
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Hand MW, Mitchell S, DeGregory C. Advance directives in the provision of care for incarcerated adults: a scoping review protocol. JBI Database System Rev Implement Rep. 2016 06; 14(6):91-5.
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Allen SL, Davis KS, Rousseau PC, Iverson PJ, Mauldin PD, Moran WP. Advanced Care Directives: Overcoming the Obstacles. J Grad Med Educ. 2015 Mar; 7(1):91-4.
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Rousseau PC. Due diligence for the legal decision maker. J Palliat Med. 2014 May; 17(5):505.
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Braun UK, Beyth RJ, Ford ME, Espadas D, McCullough LB. Decision-making styles of seriously ill male Veterans for end-of-life care: Autonomists, Altruists, Authorizers, Absolute Trusters, and Avoiders. Patient Educ Couns. 2014 Mar; 94(3):334-41.
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Coyne PJ. The case of Mrs. A. J Palliat Med. 2012 Dec; 15(12):1396-7.
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Limehouse WE, Feeser VR, Bookman KJ, Derse A. A model for emergency department end-of-life communications after acute devastating events--part I: decision-making capacity, surrogates, and advance directives. Acad Emerg Med. 2012 Sep; 19(9):E1068-72.
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Tsai NT. Considerations in surrogate decision making in the internet age. Am J Bioeth. 2012; 12(10):51.
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Rousseau PC. A fight to the end. J Palliat Med. 2011 Nov; 14(11):1268-9.
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