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Descriptor English: Advance Directives
Descriptor Spanish: Directivas Anticipadas
Descriptor directivas anticipadas
Entry term(s) poder legal para la asistencia médica
poder legal para la atención sanitaria
Scope note: Declaraciones que realizan los pacientes con antelación a una situación en la que pueden ser incapaces de decidir sobre su propia asistencia, estableciendo sus preferencias terapéuticas o autorizando a una tercera parte a tomar decisiones por ellos. (Traducción libre del original: Bioethics Thesaurus)
Descriptor Portuguese: Diretivas Antecipadas
Descriptor French: Directives anticipées
Entry term(s): Advance Directive
Attorney Healthcare Power
Attorney Medical Power
Contract, Ulysses
Contracts, Ulysses
Directive, Advance
Directives, Advance
Health Care Power of Attorney
Healthcare Power of Attorney
Medical Power of Attorney
Psychiatric Will
Psychiatric Wills
Ulysses Contract
Ulysses Contracts
Will, Psychiatric
Wills, Psychiatric
Tree number(s): I01.880.604.583.020
N03.706.535.020
N04.590.233.624.124.050
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016223
Scope note: 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. (Bioethics Thesaurus)
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
EH ethnology
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
TD trends
Previous Indexing: Right to Die (1987-1990)
Wills (1966-1990)
Public MeSH Note: 1991
History Note: 1991
Related: Advance Directive Adherence MeSH
Resuscitation Orders MeSH
Right to Die MeSH
DeCS ID: 28849
Unique ID: D016223
NLM Classification: W 85.5
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1990/06/01
Revision Date: 2002/07/02
Advance Directives - Preferred
Concept UI M0024771
Scope note 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. (Bioethics Thesaurus)
Preferred term Advance Directives
Entry term(s) Advance Directive
Directive, Advance
Directives, Advance
Medical Power of Attorney - Narrower
Concept UI M0024774
Preferred term Medical Power of Attorney
Entry term(s) Attorney Medical Power
Psychiatric Wills - Narrower
Concept UI M0022980
Scope note Declarations in which currently competent MENTALLY ILL PERSONS assert in advance their desire to accept or reject psychiatric interventions that they may be deemed to require in the future. (Bioethics Thesaurus)
Preferred term Psychiatric Wills
Entry term(s) Contract, Ulysses
Contracts, Ulysses
Psychiatric Will
Ulysses Contract
Ulysses Contracts
Will, Psychiatric
Wills, Psychiatric
Health Care Power of Attorney - Narrower
Concept UI M0024773
Preferred term Health Care Power of Attorney
Entry term(s) Attorney Healthcare Power
Healthcare Power of Attorney



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