"Living Wills" 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.
Written, witnessed declarations in which persons request that if they become disabled beyond reasonable expectation of recovery, they be allowed to die rather than be kept alive by extraordinary means. (Bioethics Thesaurus)
| Descriptor ID |
D016224
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.880.604.583.020.500 I01.880.604.583.927.500 N03.706.535.020.500 N04.590.233.624.124.050.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Living Wills- Living Wills
- Living Will
- Will, Living
- Wills, Living
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Living Wills" by people in Profiles.
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Navigating Ethical Conflicts Between Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision-Makers' Interpretations of Patient Wishes. Chest. 2016 Feb; 149(2):562-567.
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Dominions of surrogate opinions: who is in charge? J Vasc Surg. 2009 Jan; 49(1):249-50.
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Complying with advance directives in the operating room. J Vasc Surg. 2002 Jul; 36(1):199-200.
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Withdrawing very low-burden interventions in chronically ill patients. JAMA. 2000 Feb 23; 283(8):1061-3.
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Projecting patients' preferences from living wills: an invalid strategy for management of dementia with life-threatening illness. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1994 Sep; 42(9):997-1003.
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Use of the Natural Death Act in pediatric patients. Crit Care Med. 1991 Jul; 19(7):901-5.
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The values history. The evaluation of the patient's values and advance directives. J Fam Pract. 1991 Feb; 32(2):145-53.