Advance Directive Adherence

"Advance Directive Adherence" 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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Compliance by health personnel or proxies with the stipulations of ADVANCE DIRECTIVES (or similar directives such as RESUSCITATION ORDERS) when patients are unable to direct their own care.

Descriptor ID

D024362

MeSH Number(s)

N04.761.040

N05.715.360.317

Concept/Terms

Advance Directive Adherence

Directive Adherence

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Advance Directive Adherence".

Health Care [N]
Health Services Administration [N04]
Quality of Health Care [N04.761]
Advance Directive Adherence [N04.761.040]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Quality of Health Care [N05.715]
Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms [N05.715.360]
Advance Directive Adherence [N05.715.360.317]

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publications

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

Bar chart showing 13 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2011 and 2013

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1999	1	0	1
2006	0	1	1
2008	1	0	1
2009	1	0	1
2010	1	0	1
2011	1	1	2
2012	0	1	1
2013	1	1	2
2014	1	0	1
2017	1	0	1
2020	0	1	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Advance Directive Adherence" by people in Profiles.

A Health Care Systems Approach to Improving Care for Seriously Ill Patients. Narrat Inq Bioeth. 2020; 10(1):79-88.

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"Taking over somebody's life": Experiences of surrogate decision-makers in the surgical intensive care unit. Surgery. 2017 08; 162(2):453-460.

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It's big surgery: preoperative expressions of risk, responsibility, and commitment to treatment after high-risk operations. Ann Surg. 2014 Mar; 259(3):458-63.

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The end-of-life experience: modifiable predictors of caregivers' bereavement adjustment. Cancer. 2014 Mar 15; 120(6):918-25.

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Concordance of out-of-hospital and emergency department cardiac arrest resuscitation with documented end-of-life choices in Oregon. Ann Emerg Med. 2014 Apr; 63(4):375-83.

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The Oregon physician orders for life-sustaining treatment registry: a preliminary study of emergency medical services utilization. J Emerg Med. 2013 Apr; 44(4):796-805.

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Doing the right thing: a geriatrician's perspective on medical care for the person with advanced dementia. J Law Med Ethics. 2012; 40(1):51-6.

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When doctors and daughters disagree: twenty-two days and two blinks of an eye. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011 Dec; 59(12):2337-40.

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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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Adherence to pharmacological thromboprophylaxis orders in hospitalized patients. Am J Med. 2010 Jun; 123(6):536-41.

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