"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 | 11 | 4 | 15 |
| 2018 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 2019 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2020 | 8 | 7 | 15 |
| 2021 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| 2022 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 2023 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2024 | 4 | 8 | 12 |
| 2025 | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| 2026 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Patient-Centered Care" by people in Profiles.
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Co-Designing Person- and Family-Centered Care for Older Adults Living With HIV: Protocol for a Community-Based Participatory Study. JMIR Res Protoc. 2026 Jul 10; 15:e94520.
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Hurricane Preparedness of Children and Youth with Special Healthcare Needs and Medical Complexity: A Patient Centered Approach. Acad Pediatr. 2026 Aug; 26(6):103344.
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Identifying patient-centered outcomes in progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis: Results from IMPACT. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2026 Aug; 83(2):215-222.
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Supporting Survivor-Centered Care Through Digital Health Integration. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2026 Aug; 73(8):e70418.
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Clinically Meaningful, Patient-Centered Endpoints for Real-World Evidence Generation in Breast Cancer: Perspectives from the Multidisciplinary TRIUMPH Initiative. Adv Ther. 2026 May; 43(5):1855-1868.
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From Insight to Action: A National Patient-Centered Strategic Framework for Improving Reproductive Health Outcomes in Individuals With Congenital Heart Disease. J Am Heart Assoc. 2026 Mar 17; 15(6):e046867.
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Espousing the innocence of paediatric patients: an innocent act? J Med Ethics. 2026 Feb 27; 52(3):205-208.
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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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Towards Human-Centered Digital Health Interventions. Psychiatr Clin North Am. 2026 Sep; 49(3):517-533.
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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).