Treatment Refusal - Ethics
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Involvement of adolescents in decision making for heart transplants.

30 Aug 2009 Every year, hundreds of children and adolescents are faced with the need for heart transplantation to survive end-stage cardiac disease. This experience extends far beyond the surgical intervention, for it begins with a waiting period that may ... Read more...

Stopping eating and drinking.

30 Aug 2009 Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking, in which death occurs within one to three weeks of beginning the fast, is increasingly explored in the literature and mainstream media as an option to be discussed with "decisionally capable," suffering ... Read more...

Covert medication in older adults who lack decision-making capacity.

30 Jul 2009 Any mentally competent adult has the right to give or refuse consent to treatment or nursing intervention. The ethical principle underpinning this free choice is respect for autonomy, and the nurse's professional duty to respect the decision of the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Treatment Refusal - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Surrogate decision making for a pregnant patient refusing emergency Caesarian section. 30 Oct 2009
• Involvement of adolescents in decision making for heart transplants. 30 Aug 2009
• Stopping eating and drinking. 30 Aug 2009
• Covert medication in older adults who lack decision-making capacity. 30 Jul 2009
• [5/7. Cesarean section refusal] 30 Jul 2009
• Clinical report--Forgoing medically provided nutrition and hydration in children. 25 Jul 2009
• Guidelines for managing conscientious objection to blood transfusion. 29 Jun 2009
• Extreme anemia in an injured Jehovah's Witness: a test of our understanding of the physiology of severe anemia and the threshold for blood transfusion. 29 Jun 2009
• Addictions, autonomy and so much more: a reply to Caplan. 30 May 2009
• A basic decision-making approach to common ethical issues in consultation-liaison psychiatry. 30 May 2009
• On "Distinguishing among irrational suicide, rational suicide, and other forms of hastened death: implications for clinical practice" by Cavin P. Leeman, M.D. 29 Apr 2009
• On "Distinguishing among irrational suicide, rational suicide, and other forms of hastened death: implications for clinical practice" by Cavin P. Leeman, M.D. 29 Apr 2009
• On "Distinguishing among irrational suicide, rational suicide, and other forms of hastened death: implications for clinical practice" by Cavin P. Leeman, M.D. 29 Apr 2009
• [Patient refusal of treatment] 25 Apr 2009
• Dilemmas in intimate partner violence. 13 Apr 2009
• A Jewish perspective on the refusal of life-sustaining therapies: culture as shaping bioethical discourse. 30 Mar 2009
• The straight route to withholding hand-feeding and hydration. 30 Mar 2009
• The "window of opportunity:" helping parents make the most difficult decision they will ever face using an informed non-dissent model. 30 Mar 2009
• Unnecessary time pressure in refusal of life-sustaining therapies: fear of missing the opportunity to die. 30 Mar 2009
• Response to open peer commentaries for "Unnecessary time pressure in refusal of life-sustaining therapies". 30 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Treatment Refusal'

Definition: Patient or client refusal of or resistance to medical, psychological, or psychiatric treatment. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed.)

Descriptor UI: D016312

Alternative terms: Treatment Refusal; Refusal, Treatment; Refusals, Treatment; Treatment Refusals; Refusal of Treatment; Patient Refusal of Treatment;

Related Mesh Headings: Informed Consent; Patient Compliance; Patient Dropouts; Mental Competency;

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

Tree Number: F01.145.488.800; I01.880.604.473.650.968; N03.706.437.650.875; N05.300.150.600.800;

History Note: 1991

Technical Notes: for patient non-compliance index PATIENT NON-COMPLIANCE see PATIENT COMPLIANCE; do not confuse with PHYSICIAN REFUSAL TO TREAT see REFUSAL TO TREAT