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Truth Disclosure

"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.

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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).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Truth Disclosure" by people in this website by year, and whether "Truth Disclosure" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 12 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2011
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