Palliative Medicine

Preferred Label : Palliative Medicine;

MeSH definition : A branch of medicine concerned with preventing and relieving the suffering of patients in any stage of disease. Its focus is on comprehensive care and improving the quality of all areas of the patient's life.;

MeSH synonym : Palliative Care Medicine; Medicine, Palliative Care; Medicine, Palliative;

Wikipedia automatic translation : Palliative care;

MeSH annotation : specialty only; use PALLIATIVE CARE for care of patients;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palliative care;

Details

Origin ID

D065126;

UMLS CUI

C0282281;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- education [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- organization & administration [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Palliative care physician (occupation) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Palliative medicine (qualifier value) [SNOMED CT concept]
- palliative care [Artificial nutrition thesaurus concept]
- palliative medicine [CISMeF Metaterm]
Metaterm(s)
- palliative medicine [CISMeF Metaterm]
Record concept(s)
- palliative medicine [MeSH concept]
See also
- hospice and palliative care nursing [MeSH Descriptor]
- palliative care [MeSH Descriptor]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- terminal care [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Biomedical Occupation or Discipline [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Palliative medicine (qualifier value) [SNOMED CT concept]
- palliative medicine [CISMeF Metaterm]

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