 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 | 0 | 1 | | 1997 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 1998 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2000 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2001 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2002 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2003 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2004 | 6 | 6 | 12 | | 2005 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2006 | 7 | 3 | 10 | | 2007 | 9 | 6 | 15 | | 2008 | 5 | 2 | 7 | | 2009 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | 2010 | 11 | 6 | 17 | | 2011 | 13 | 9 | 22 | | 2012 | 13 | 5 | 18 | | 2013 | 18 | 3 | 21 | | 2014 | 17 | 4 | 21 | | 2015 | 25 | 5 | 30 | | 2016 | 21 | 10 | 31 | | 2017 | 43 | 7 | 50 | | 2018 | 34 | 7 | 41 | | 2019 | 40 | 21 | 61 | | 2020 | 26 | 20 | 46 | | 2021 | 23 | 21 | 44 | | 2022 | 15 | 33 | 48 | | 2023 | 14 | 29 | 43 | | 2024 | 34 | 16 | 50 | | 2025 | 25 | 5 | 30 | | 2026 | 17 | 3 | 20 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Palliative Care" by people in Profiles.
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Morrison KT, Fink RM, Arora K, Nowels D, Palmer MC, Lockspeiser T, Brackett H, Campbell D, Scott M, Bailey FA. Qualitative evaluation of an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-approved online hospice and palliative medicine fellowship program. Acad Med. 2026 Jul 01; 101(7):832-841.
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Seshadri S, Akbar U, Auinger P, Lessard NA, Dini M, Norton SA, Lum HD, Holtrop JS, Miyasaki JM, Vaughan CL, Kluger BM. Reach of Palliative Care in Parkinson Disease: Progress and Gaps After a National Team-Based Implementation Project. Neurol Clin Pract. 2026 Aug; 16(4):e200628.
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Verma M, Navarro V, Kosinski A, Taddei T, Kalman R, Barritt Iv AS, Jakab S, Serper M, Orman E, Balakrishnan M, Rakoski M, Rockey D, Hunt K, Cabrera R, Aytaman A, John B, Baffy G, Nathan R, Tapper E, Roytman M, McGuire B, Hoppmann N, Woodrell C, Bakitas M, Yue Y, Reeve B, Lin L, Tantala R, Volk M. Palliative Care Intervention for Patients With End-Stage Liver Disease: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2026 Jun 01; 186(6):677-686.
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Odom JN, Azuero A, Taylor RA, Young Pierce J, McGowen CL, Pisu M, Rocque G, Reed RD, Wells R, Gazaway S, Mollman S, Williams GR, Huang CS, Engler S, Bakitas MA. Palliative Care Coaching for Family Caregivers of Patients With Advanced Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Jun 01; 9(6):e2619807.
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Neo SH, Ong WS, Liao K, Sim DK, Ng ESL, Foo CC, Yang Meijuan G, Odom JN, Bakitas M, Cheung YB. Feasibility, acceptability and efficacy of a nurse-led palliative care health coaching intervention (Educate, Nurture, Advise before Life Ends) for patients with heart failure and their caregivers in Singapore: a randomised wait-list controlled pilot study of health coaching in Asian heart failure. BMJ Open. 2026 May 15; 16(5):e113749.
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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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