As an inherently palliative concept, "advance directives" 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 directives) or a specific search (retrieves only those references with a palliative care focus). 

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Advance Directives: Declarations by patients, made in advance of a situation in which they may be incompetent to decide about their own care, stating their treatment preferences or authorizing a third party to make decisions for them (Source: Bioethics Thesaurus). This search includes living wills.

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

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