"Truth Disclosure" 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.
Truthful revealing of information, specifically when the information disclosed is likely to be psychologically painful ("bad news") to the recipient (e.g., revelation to a patient or a patient's family of the patient's diagnosis or prognosis) or embarrassing to the teller (e.g., revelation of medical errors).
Concept/Terms
Truth Disclosure- Truth Disclosure
- Disclosures, Truth
- Truth Disclosures
- Disclosure, Truth
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Truth Disclosure".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Truth Disclosure".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Truth Disclosure" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Truth Disclosure" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1995 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 1996 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 1997 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 1998 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2001 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2002 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2003 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 2004 | 7 | 6 | 13 |
| 2005 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| 2006 | 13 | 6 | 19 |
| 2007 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 2008 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 2009 | 12 | 5 | 17 |
| 2010 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2011 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| 2012 | 8 | 4 | 12 |
| 2013 | 8 | 4 | 12 |
| 2014 | 14 | 3 | 17 |
| 2015 | 11 | 10 | 21 |
| 2016 | 12 | 8 | 20 |
| 2017 | 11 | 5 | 16 |
| 2018 | 11 | 5 | 16 |
| 2019 | 12 | 6 | 18 |
| 2020 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2021 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2022 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2023 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Truth Disclosure" by people in Profiles.
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Influences on decision-making about disclosure of HIV status by adolescents and young adults living with HIV in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Afr J AIDS Res. 2023 Dec; 22(4):306-315.
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Understanding the Persistent Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Aortic Surgery Outcomes: The Data Tell the Truth. Ann Thorac Surg. 2024 Apr; 117(4):769.
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Disclosure of Possible Trial Termination to Participants of Interventional Clinical Trials. JAMA. 2023 04 04; 329(13):1116-1117.
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Oncologist approaches to communicating uncertain disease status in pediatric cancer: a qualitative study. BMC Cancer. 2022 Oct 31; 22(1):1109.
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"Seed Planting" As an Approach for Longitudinal Prognostic Disclosure in Pediatric Cancer: A Case Series. J Palliat Med. 2023 03; 26(3):447-451.
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Mismatch between Pediatric Oncologists' Private and Parent-Facing Prognostic Communication: Communication Patterns Used to Soften Prognostic Disclosure. J Palliat Med. 2023 02; 26(2):210-219.
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Medical Misinformation: Trainees on the Starting Line of Truth. Acad Med. 2022 07 01; 97(7):943-944.
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Pediatric Trainee Perspectives on the Decision to Disclose Medical Errors. J Patient Saf. 2022 03 01; 18(2):e470-e476.
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Disclosure Coaching: An Ask-Tell-Ask Model to Support Clinicians in Disclosure Conversations. J Patient Saf. 2021 12 01; 17(8):e1364-e1370.
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Comment on: Truth and truthiness: evidence, experience and clinical judgement in surgery. Br J Surg. 2021 12 01; 108(12):e417.