Health Care

Advance Directive Adherence

Compliance by health personnel or proxies with the stipulations of ADVANCE DIRECTIVES (or similar directives such as RESUSCITATION ORDERS) when patients are unable to direct their own care.

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Abstract

Compliance by health personnel or proxies with the stipulations of ADVANCE DIRECTIVES (or similar directives such as RESUSCITATION ORDERS) when patients are unable to direct their own care.

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Synonyms

9 entry terms
  • Advance Directive Compliance
  • Adherence, Advance Directive
  • Compliance, Advance Directive
  • Directive Adherence, Advance
  • Directive Compliance, Advance
  • Directive Adherence
  • Adherence, Directive
  • Adherences, Directive
  • Directive Adherences

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10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, psychology, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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History Note

2002

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Previous Indexing

  • Advance Directives (1991-2001)

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Tree Numbers

  1. N04w.761w.040
  2. N05.715w.360.317

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Advance Directive Adherence. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D024362. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D024362
  2. Advance Directive Adherence. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70374160