"Advance Directives" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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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| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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