As an inherently palliative concept, "advance care planning" is an integral part of the palliative filter and can not, for technical reasons, be searched in combination with it. You have instead a choice of a maximally sensitive search (retrieves all references on the topic of advance care planning) or a specific search (retrieves only references with a palliative care focus).

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Advance Care Planning: Discussions with patients and/or their representatives about the goals and desired direction of the patient's care, particularly end-of-life care, in the event that the patient is or becomes incompetent to make decisions (Source: MeSH Thesaurus)

A related PubMed Topic Search is Advance Directives
To choose another topic, go back to Palliative Care PubMed Searches

This page was created on 30 April 2008
 Last reviewed 28 April 2010