"Patient-Centered 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.
Design of patient care wherein institutional resources and personnel are organized around patients rather than around specialized departments. (From Hospitals 1993 Feb 5;67(3):14)
| Descriptor ID |
D018802
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N04.590.233.727.407
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| Concept/Terms |
Medical Home- Medical Home
- Home, Medical
- Homes, Medical
- Medical Homes
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Patient-Centered Care".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Patient-Centered Care".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Patient-Centered Care" by people in this website by year, and whether "Patient-Centered Care" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2012 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
| 2014 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
| 2015 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| 2016 | 9 | 3 | 12 |
| 2017 | 10 | 4 | 14 |
| 2018 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 2019 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2020 | 8 | 7 | 15 |
| 2021 | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| 2022 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 2023 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2024 | 4 | 7 | 11 |
| 2025 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Patient-Centered Care" by people in Profiles.
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Waiting room and hallway care for older adults: a qualitative study with emergency nurses and technicians. BMC Geriatr. 2025 Nov 26; 25(1):970.
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Development of a Patient-Centered Outcome Tool for Blepharospasm: A Stepwise Modified Delphi Study. Toxins (Basel). 2025 Sep 10; 17(9).
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Patient-Centered Measures of Goal Concordance in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Scoping Review. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Sep 02; 8(9):e2530370.
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Designing a Patient-Centered Interdisciplinary Intervention to Promote Equitable Access to Kidney Transplantation across Health Systems: The STEPS Study. Health Soc Work. 2025 Aug 01; 50(3):219-227.
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Guiding Age-Friendly Care Through "What Matters": Restoring the Whole Person Back into Clinical Practice. J Gen Intern Med. 2026 Jan; 41(2):530-534.
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Compassionomics: Translating Evidence-Informed Patient-Centered Care to the Allergy Immunology Clinic. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2025 Oct; 13(10):2608-2618.
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Designing Health Care Provider-Centered Emergency Department Interventions: Participatory Design Study. JMIR Form Res. 2025 Apr 21; 9:e68891.
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System Interventions to Achieve Early and Equitable Kidney Transplants (STEPS): Protocol for STEPS, a randomized comparative effectiveness clinical trial. Contemp Clin Trials. 2025 Jun; 153:107911.
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Designing Patient-Centered Interventions for Emergency Care: Participatory Design Study. JMIR Form Res. 2025 Feb 12; 9:e63610.
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Veterans' Experiences of and Preferences for Patient-Centered, Measurement-Based PTSD Care. Med Care. 2024 Dec 01; 62(12 Suppl 1):S84-S90.