Palliative Care

"Palliative Care" 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.

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Care alleviating symptoms without curing the underlying disease. (Stedman, 25th ed)

Descriptor ID	D010166
MeSH Number(s)	E02.760.666 N02.421.585.666
Concept/Terms	Palliative Care Palliative Care Care, Palliative Therapy, Palliative Palliative Therapy Palliative Treatment Palliative Treatments Treatment, Palliative Treatments, Palliative Palliative Surgery Palliative Surgery Surgery, Palliative

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Palliative Care".

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Therapeutics [E02]
Patient Care [E02.760]
Palliative Care [E02.760.666]
Health Care [N]
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services [N02]
Health Services [N02.421]
Patient Care [N02.421.585]
Palliative Care [N02.421.585.666]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Palliative Care".

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Bar chart showing 992 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 65 publications in 2012

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1991	4	3	7
1992	5	6	11
1993	7	3	10
1994	8	8	16
1995	8	7	15
1996	17	10	27
1997	17	12	29
1998	19	8	27
1999	10	8	18
2000	24	16	40
2001	19	11	30
2002	20	9	29
2003	12	10	22
2004	14	12	26
2005	14	13	27
2006	18	15	33
2007	19	16	35
2008	20	15	35
2009	17	10	27
2010	24	19	43
2011	29	15	44
2012	52	13	65
2013	42	17	59
2014	47	15	62
2015	40	16	56
2016	23	14	37
2017	27	15	42
2018	39	13	52
2019	32	17	49
2020	12	7	19

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Kamarinos NV, Dawson LA, Saltz LB, Crane CH, Overman MJ, Vauthey JN, Odisio BC, Denys A, de Baère T, Pereira PL, Sze DY, Vogl TJ, Meijerink MR, Helmberger T, Kim HS, Solomon SB, Sofocleous CT. Trials of locoregional therapies inspired by SABR-COMET. Lancet. 2020 10 03; 396(10256):956-957.

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Bandieri E, Potenza L, Efficace F, Bruera E, Luppi M. Independent Research on Cancer Pain Management in the Setting of Early Palliative Care: A Flywheel to Counteract General Opioid Misuse and Abuse. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 09 28; 17(19).

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Moulin B, Tselikas L, Gravel G, Al Ahmar M, Delpla A, Yevich S, Hakime A, Territehau C, De Baere T, Deschamps F. Safety and Efficacy of Multilevel Thoracolumbar Vertebroplasty in the Simultaneous Treatment of Six or More Pathologic Compression Fractures. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2020 10; 31(10):1683-1689.e1.

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Hui D, De La Rosa A, Wu J, Bruera E. Terminal agitation and delirium in patients with cancer - Authors' reply. Lancet Oncol. 2020 09; 21(9):e411.

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Weinstein GS, Cohen R, Lin A, O'Malley BW, Lukens J, Swisher-McClure S, Shanti RM, Newman JG, Parhar HS, Tasche K, Brody RM, Chalian A, Cannady S, Palmer JN, Adappa ND, Kohanski MA, Bauml J, Aggarwal C, Montone K, Livolsi V, Baloch ZW, Jalaly JB, Cooper K, Rajasekaran K, Loevner L, Rassekh C. Penn Medicine Head and Neck Cancer Service Line COVID-19 management guidelines. Head Neck. 2020 Jul; 42(7):1507-1515.

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Erondu MU, Mahoney DP. Palliative care, resuscitation status, and end-of-life considerations in pediatric anesthesia. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2020 Jun; 33(3):354-360.

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Hui D, De La Rosa A, Wilson A, Nguyen T, Wu J, Delgado-Guay M, Azhar A, Arthur J, Epner D, Haider A, De La Cruz M, Heung Y, Tanco K, Dalal S, Reddy A, Williams J, Amin S, Armstrong TS, Breitbart W, Bruera E. Neuroleptic strategies for terminal agitation in patients with cancer and delirium at an acute palliative care unit: a single-centre, double-blind, parallel-group, randomised trial. Lancet Oncol. 2020 07; 21(7):989-998.

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Liao Z, Rivin Del Campo E, Salem A, Pang Q, Liu H, Lopez Guerra JL. Optimizing lung cancer radiation treatment worldwide in COVID-19 outbreak. Lung Cancer. 2020 08; 146:230-235.

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Swanson TM, Patel A, Baxter AJ, Morris SA, Maskatia SA, Lantos JD. Pediatric Cardiology Specialist's Opinions Toward the Acceptability of Comfort Care for Congenital Heart Disease. Pediatr Cardiol. 2020 Aug; 41(6):1160-1165.

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Kirkpatrick JN, Hull SC, Fedson S, Mullen B, Goodlin SJ. Scarce-Resource Allocation and Patient Triage During the COVID-19 Pandemic: JACC Review Topic of the Week. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2020 Jul 07; 76(1):85-92.

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