 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,
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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)
| Descriptor ID |
D016223
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.880.604.583.020 N03.706.535.020 N04.590.233.624.124.050
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| Concept/Terms |
Advance Directives- Advance Directives
- Advance Directive
- Directive, Advance
- Directives, Advance
Psychiatric Wills- Psychiatric Wills
- Psychiatric Will
- Will, Psychiatric
- Wills, Psychiatric
- Ulysses Contracts
- Contract, Ulysses
- Contracts, Ulysses
- Ulysses Contract
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Advance Directives" by people in Profiles.
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Black PG, Derse AR, Derrington S, Lantos JD. Can a patient designate his doctor as his proxy decision maker? Pediatrics. 2013 May; 131(5):986-90.
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Lantos JD, Meadow WL. Should the "slow code" be resuscitated? Am J Bioeth. 2011 Nov; 11(11):8-12.
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Lantos JD. Saturday morning postmortem. Hastings Cent Rep. 2010 Mar-Apr; 40(2):5-6; author reply 6.
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Torke AM, Alexander GC, Lantos J. Substituted judgment: the limitations of autonomy in surrogate decision making. J Gen Intern Med. 2008 Sep; 23(9):1514-7.
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Curlin FA, Nwodim C, Vance JL, Chin MH, Lantos JD. To die, to sleep: US physicians' religious and other objections to physician-assisted suicide, terminal sedation, and withdrawal of life support. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2008 Apr-May; 25(2):112-20.
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