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Advance Care Planning

"Advance Care Planning" 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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Discussions with patients and/or their representatives about the goals and desired direction of the patient's care, particularly end-of-life care, in the event that the patient is or becomes incompetent to make decisions.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Advance Care Planning" by people in this website by year, and whether "Advance Care Planning" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 17 publications over 10 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2014 and 2017
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