Living Wills

"Living Wills" 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.

MeSH information

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Written, witnessed declarations in which persons request that if they become disabled beyond reasonable expectation of recovery, they be allowed to die rather than be kept alive by extraordinary means. (Bioethics Thesaurus)

Descriptor ID

D016224

MeSH Number(s)

I01.880.604.583.020.500

I01.880.604.583.927.500

N03.706.535.020.500

N04.590.233.624.124.050.500

Concept/Terms

Living Wills

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Living Wills".

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena [I]
Social Sciences [I01]
Sociology [I01.880]
Social Control, Formal [I01.880.604]
Jurisprudence [I01.880.604.583]
Advance Directives [I01.880.604.583.020]
Living Wills [I01.880.604.583.020.500]
Wills [I01.880.604.583.927]
Living Wills [I01.880.604.583.927.500]
Health Care [N]
Health Care Economics and Organizations [N03]
Social Control, Formal [N03.706]
Jurisprudence [N03.706.535]
Advance Directives [N03.706.535.020]
Living Wills [N03.706.535.020.500]
Health Services Administration [N04]
Patient Care Management [N04.590]
Comprehensive Health Care [N04.590.233]
Patient Care Planning [N04.590.233.624]
Advance Care Planning [N04.590.233.624.124]
Advance Directives [N04.590.233.624.124.050]
Living Wills [N04.590.233.624.124.050.500]

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publications

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Living Wills" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Living Wills" was a major or minor topic of these publication.

Bar chart showing 15 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 1999 and 2007

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1994	0	1	1
1995	1	0	1
1999	0	2	2
2000	1	0	1
2001	1	0	1
2004	0	1	1
2005	0	1	1
2006	0	1	1
2007	1	1	2
2010	0	1	1
2011	1	0	1
2014	1	0	1
2016	0	1	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Living Wills" by people in Profiles.

Emergency Physicians' Experience with Advance Care Planning Documentation in the Electronic Medical Record: Useful, Needed, and Elusive. J Palliat Med. 2016 06; 19(6):632-8.

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Living will interest and preferred end-of-life care and death locations among Japanese adults 50 and over: a population-based survey. Acta Med Okayama. 2014 Dec; 68(6):339-48.

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Responding to surrogate requests that seem inconsistent with a patient's living will. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2011 Nov; 42(5):777-82.

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Agreement between older persons and their surrogate decision-makers regarding participation in advance care planning. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011 Jun; 59(6):1105-9.

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Stages of change for the component behaviors of advance care planning. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2010 Dec; 58(12):2329-36.

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How the public responded to the Schiavo controversy: evidence from letters to editors. J Med Ethics. 2010 Sep; 36(9):571-3.

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Reversing the code status of advance directives? N Engl J Med. 2010 Apr 01; 362(13):1239-40.

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Position statement on laws and regulations concerning life-sustaining treatment, including artificial nutrition and hydration, for patients lacking decision-making capacity. Neurology. 2008 Jan 15; 70(3):242; author reply 242-3.

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Differences in the quality of the patient-physician relationship among terminally ill African-American and white patients: impact on advance care planning and treatment preferences. J Gen Intern Med. 2007 Nov; 22(11):1579-82.

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Advance care planning in patients undergoing hematopoietic cell transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2007 Jan; 13(1):65-73.

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