 Palliative Care
"Palliative Care" 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.
Care alleviating symptoms without curing the underlying disease. (Stedman, 25th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D010166
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.760.666 N02.421.585.666
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| Concept/Terms |
Palliative Care- Palliative Care
- Care, Palliative
- Therapy, Palliative
- Palliative Therapy
- Palliative Treatment
- Palliative Treatments
- Treatment, Palliative
- Treatments, Palliative
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Palliative Care" by people in this website by year, and whether "Palliative Care" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1997 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 1998 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2000 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2001 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2003 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2004 | 5 | 5 | 10 | | 2005 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2006 | 6 | 2 | 8 | | 2007 | 10 | 6 | 16 | | 2008 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2009 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2010 | 9 | 6 | 15 | | 2011 | 13 | 9 | 22 | | 2012 | 9 | 4 | 13 | | 2013 | 16 | 3 | 19 | | 2014 | 14 | 4 | 18 | | 2015 | 19 | 5 | 24 | | 2016 | 19 | 8 | 27 | | 2017 | 31 | 6 | 37 | | 2018 | 25 | 7 | 32 | | 2019 | 32 | 15 | 47 | | 2020 | 21 | 19 | 40 | | 2021 | 20 | 17 | 37 | | 2022 | 14 | 31 | 45 | | 2023 | 14 | 25 | 39 | | 2024 | 33 | 12 | 45 | | 2025 | 17 | 6 | 23 | | 2026 | 8 | 4 | 12 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Palliative Care" by people in Profiles.
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Sha C, Rosa WE, Schenker Y, Nipp RD, Odejide OO, LeBlanc TW, Epstein AS. Top advances of the year: Palliative and supportive care in oncology. Cancer. 2026 Apr 15; 132(8):e70392.
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Kessler ER, Hoover K, Coats H, Fischer SM. Use of a Delphi process to formulate a pragmatic framework for care planning in older adults with advanced bladder cancer. Support Care Cancer. 2026 Mar 25; 34(4).
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Singh S, Mann S, Dorsey C, Lahoff D, McDermott W, Cagle J, Min SJ, Lum HD, Fischer SM. Assessing and Listening to Individual Goals and Needs (ALIGN) versus enhanced usual care for hospitalized older patients with cancer discharged to skilled nursing facilities: Protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial. J Geriatr Oncol. 2026 May; 17(4):102956.
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Arch JJ, Mitchell JL, Schmiege SJ, Levin ME, Nealis MS, Genung SR, Fink RM, Andorsky DJ, Kutner JS. Valued Living intervention to increase advance care planning and well-being in depressed and anxious adults with advanced cancer: Randomized trial in community oncology clinics. Cancer. 2026 Mar 15; 132(6):e70349.
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Yilmaz S, Aslam S, Sillau S, Katz M, Kluger B. Bridging the gap: Evaluating a community-based palliative care intervention for underserved patients with Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2026 May; 146:108262.
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Fei Y, Juarez-Colunga E, El-Jawahri A, Kutner JS, Colborn K. Joint Modeling of Quality of Life and Survival Using a Bayesian Approach in a Retrospective Time Scale. Stat Med. 2026 Mar; 45(6-7):e70505.
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Jeno M, Koop J, Gabriel M, Caraway A, Novotny E, Patrick K, Gonzalez-Giraldo E, Auguste K, Ostendorf A, McNally K, Alexander A, Berrios-Servios G, Eschbach K, Bolton J, Ailion A, Singh R, Wong-Kisiel L, Zaccariello M, Tatachar P, Duong P, Depositario-Cabacar D, Berl M, Sepeta L, Karakas C, Karia S, Mohapatra L, Rowmanowski E, McNamara N, Hodges E, Shrey D, Hennrick H, Olaya J, Arredondo K, DeLeon R, Reddy S, Molnar A, Javarayee P, Park SE, Coryell J, Olsen E, Bearden DJ, Winston M, Samanta D, Armstrong D, Wolf S, McGoldrick P, Marashly A, Grinspan Z, Nangia S, Perry M, Ciliberto M. Neuropsychological assessments in a large cohort of pediatric palliative epilepsy surgery patients. Epilepsy Behav. 2026 May; 178:110943.
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Bridge B, Alasmar AY, Gunn-Sandell L, Fink RM, Fischer SM, Juarez-Colunga E, Campbell EG, DeCamp M. "Black box" artificial intelligence for mortality prediction: a mixed-methods study of palliative care team, patient, and caregiver perspectives. Ann Palliat Med. 2026 Mar; 15(2):20.
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Kutner JS, Aldridge MD, Brody AA, Feudtner C, Johnson K, Fischer SM, Hurley SL, Bakos A, Fazio EM, Kehl KA, Mitchell SA, Necka EA, Streck BP, Keller C. The ASCENT Consortium: A New Resource to Support Palliative Care Science Across the Lifespan. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2026 May; 71(5):e591-e597.
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Kessler ER, Min SJ, Hoover K, Coats H, Fischer SM. Feasibility and Acceptability of the ABC123 Framework for Advanced Cancer Care: Study Protocol. Nurs Res. 2026 May-Jun 01; 75(3):241-245.
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