Advance Directives

"Advance Directives" 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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Declarations by patients, made in advance of a situation in which they may be incompetent to decide about their own care, stating their treatment preferences or authorizing a third party to make decisions for them. (Bioethics Thesaurus)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Advance Directives" by people in this website by year, and whether "Advance Directives" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 39 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2015
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