"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.
Care alleviating symptoms without curing the underlying disease. (Stedman, 25th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D010166
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.760.666 N02.421.585.666
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| Concept/Terms |
Palliative Care- Palliative Care
- Care, Palliative
- Therapy, Palliative
- Palliative Therapy
- Palliative Treatment
- Palliative Treatments
- Treatment, Palliative
- Treatments, Palliative
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Palliative Care" by people in this website by year, and whether "Palliative 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 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 1998 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2000 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2004 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2005 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2006 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2007 | 10 | 4 | 14 |
| 2008 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2009 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2011 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| 2012 | 11 | 2 | 13 |
| 2013 | 10 | 6 | 16 |
| 2014 | 18 | 7 | 25 |
| 2015 | 12 | 8 | 20 |
| 2016 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 2017 | 8 | 7 | 15 |
| 2018 | 7 | 6 | 13 |
| 2019 | 15 | 9 | 24 |
| 2020 | 14 | 12 | 26 |
| 2021 | 12 | 11 | 23 |
| 2022 | 4 | 14 | 18 |
| 2023 | 4 | 9 | 13 |
| 2024 | 12 | 5 | 17 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Palliative Care" by people in Profiles.
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Reasons to Access the Emergency Department by Patients Who Receive Palliative Home Care: A Scoping Review. Dimens Crit Care Nurs. 2025 Jul-Aug 01; 44(4):186-195.
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Relationship Between Parental Distress and Proxy Symptom Reports in Pediatric Palliative Care. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2025 Jun; 69(6):654-662.e1.
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Feasibility Study of Using Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes to Screen Patients with Advanced Solid Cancers for Palliative Care Needs. J Palliat Med. 2025 May; 28(5):580-591.
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Palliative Care Initiated in the Emergency Department: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2025 Feb 18; 333(7):599-608.
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Multilevel barriers and supportive care preferences of metastatic breast cancer patients and their caregivers: a mixed-methods analysis. Support Care Cancer. 2025 Feb 11; 33(3):177.
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Palliative Care in Parkinson's Disease. Neurol Clin. 2025 May; 43(2):445-456.
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Utilization of Palliative Care in Cardiogenic Shock Patients: A Retrospective Analysis of the National Inpatient Sample Database, 2020. J Palliat Med. 2025 Apr; 28(4):446-452.
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Early palliative care perceptions by patients with cancer and primary caregivers: metaphorical language. BMJ Support Palliat Care. 2024 Dec 19; 14(e3):e3011-e3018.
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Palliative Care and Intensivists' Different Perspectives on Specialist Palliative Care Engagement in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Care. J Palliat Med. 2025 Feb; 28(2):251-256.
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Perspectives on Self-Reported Sexual Dysfunction by Palliative Care Patients with Cancer. J Palliat Med. 2025 Feb; 28(2):234-238.