Refusal to Treat
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Prevalence and predictors of abandonment of therapy among children with cancer in El Salvador.

30 Oct 2009 Abandonment of therapy is one of the most common causes of treatment failure among children with cancer in low-income countries. Our objectives were to describe the prevalence and predictors of abandonment among such children with cancer in El ... Read more...

Access to fertility treatment by gays, lesbians, and unmarried persons.

Sep 2009 This statement explores the implications of reproduction by single individuals, unmarried heterosexual couples, and gay and lesbian couples, and concludes that ethical arguments supporting denial of access to fertility services on the basis of ... Read more...

Physicians' beliefs about conscience in medicine: a national survey.

30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE: To explore physicians' beliefs about whether physicians sometimes have a professional obligation to provide medical services even if doing so goes against their conscience, and to examine associations between physicians' opinions and their ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Refusal to Treat'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Prevalence and predictors of abandonment of therapy among children with cancer in El Salvador. 30 Oct 2009
• Access to fertility treatment by gays, lesbians, and unmarried persons. Sep 2009
• Physicians' beliefs about conscience in medicine: a national survey. 30 Aug 2009
• Reasons 9-1-1 is called for cardiac arrest cases in which no resuscitation is attempted. 29 Jun 2009
• [Withholding and withdrawal decisions in oncology: legal frame and practice] 29 Jun 2009
• Ethical obligation of surgeons to noncompliant patients: can a surgeon refuse to operate on an intravenous drug-abusing patient with recurrent aortic valve prosthesis infection? 29 Jun 2009
• The development of "medical futility": towards a procedural approach based on the role of the medical profession. 30 May 2009
• What ethical guidance is there for dismissing a patient from a practice? 30 May 2009
• Conscience and the unconscionable. 30 May 2009
• Attitudes and practices of dentists treating patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy. 30 May 2009
• Euthanasia and free speech in Ireland. 25 May 2009
• Should we protect the most sensitive people? 17 May 2009
• From reproductive choice to reproductive justice. 5 May 2009
• Survey of the utilization of regional and general anesthesia in a tertiary teaching hospital. 29 Apr 2009
• Whence tendance? Accepting the responsibility of care for the chronic pain patient. 29 Apr 2009
• Alleged medical abandonment in chronic opioid analgesic therapy: case report. 20 Apr 2009
• [Prophylactic treatment of venous thromboembolic disease in palliative care. A survey about four different clinical cases] 14 Apr 2009
• Bush administration issued, and Obama administration seeks to rescind, 'conscience clause' regulation. 30 Mar 2009
• Overanxious patients. 30 Mar 2009
• Conscientious objection gone awry--restoring selfless professionalism in medicine. 23 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Refusal to Treat'

Definition: Refusal of the health professional to initiate or continue treatment of a patient or group of patients. The refusal can be based on any reason. The concept is differentiated from PATIENT REFUSAL OF TREATMENT see TREATMENT REFUSAL which originates with the patient and not the health professional.

Descriptor UI: D016079

Alternative terms: Refusal to Treat; Physician Refusal to Treat; Patient Abandonment; Abandonment, Patient;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethics; legislation & jurisprudence; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: N04.590.233.727.605; N05.300.100.675;

History Note: 91

Technical Notes: refusal of a health professional to treat a patient: do not confuse with PATIENT REFUSAL OF TREATMENT see TREATMENT REFUSAL