 Patient Care Planning
"Patient Care Planning" 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.
Usually a written medical and nursing care program designed for a particular patient.
| Descriptor ID |
D010347
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N04.590.233.624
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| Concept/Terms |
Nursing Care Plans- Nursing Care Plans
- Care Plan, Nursing
- Care Plans, Nursing
- Nursing Care Plan
- Plan, Nursing Care
- Plans, Nursing Care
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Patient Care Planning" by people in this website by year, and whether "Patient Care Planning" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1997 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 1998 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2000 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2001 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2005 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2007 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2008 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2009 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2011 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2012 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2014 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2015 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2016 | 7 | 6 | 13 | | 2017 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2018 | 3 | 6 | 9 | | 2019 | 5 | 4 | 9 | | 2020 | 3 | 9 | 12 | | 2021 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 2022 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2023 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2024 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2025 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2026 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Patient Care Planning" by people in Profiles.
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Goston C, Benson T, Coats H. Quality improvement project: Implementing a mortality screening tool post hospital discharge to guide goals of care conversations and improve hospice admissions. Geriatr Nurs. 2026 Jun; 70:104020.
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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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Doyon K, Glickman A, Deng L, Ma J, Bigger SE, Bekelman DB. Guided Goals of Care Conversations Reveal Evolving, Personalized Priorities. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2026 Jun; 71(6):744-752.
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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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Ma JE, Piscitello G, Schell J, Lyons K, Arnold RM, Eckert E, Kross EK, Gibbs LM, Gonzales MJ, Kantor M, Moore N, Nouri S, Rabow MW, Schenker Y, Sudore RL, Unger D, Walling AM, Wenger N, White PH, Casarett D. Core Elements of Goals of Care Initiatives Across Eight Health Systems. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2026 May; 71(5):e579-e590.
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Kann BH, Vossough A, Brüningk SC, Familiar AM, Aboian M, Linguraru MG, Yeom KW, Chang SM, Hargrave D, Mirsky D, Storm PB, Huang RY, Resnick AC, Weller M, Mueller S, Prados M, Peet AC, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Bakas S, Fangusaro J, Nabavizadeh A, Kazerooni AF. Artificial Intelligence for Response Assessment in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology (AI-RAPNO), part 1: review of the current state of the art. Lancet Oncol. 2025 Nov; 26(11):e597-e606.
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Piscitello G, Lingler J, Ramos K, Schenker Y, Arnold RM, Schell J. Assessing the Content of Goals of Care Documentation for Hospitalized Patients With Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2025 08; 73(8):2531-2538.
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Gambino J, Schlichte LM, Haverfield MC, Libman C, Bekelman DB, Ma JE. Uncovering Psychosocial Contexts in Goals of Care Conversations: A Qualitative Study in a Multi-Centered Randomized Controlled Trial. Clin Gerontol. 2025 Oct-Dec; 48(5):1320-1327.
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Piscitello G, Schell JO, Arnold RM, Schenker Y. Artificial intelligence for better goals of care documentation. BMJ Support Palliat Care. 2024 Dec 19; 14(e3):e2515-e2518.
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