Treatment Refusal - Legislation & jurisprudence
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Monday, November 23, 2009

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...

When "no" means no: elderly patients' right to refuse treatment.

11 Aug 2009 In the complicated health care and legal system of the United States, all patients are endowed with certain rights. The American Hospital Association and the U.S. Supreme Court have each delineated certain rights to which patients who have the ... Read more...

Knowledge and participation of front-line dialysis facility staff in end-of-life discussions.

30 Jul 2009 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Form 2746, the Death Notification Form, was revised in 2004. In addition to questions inquiring about discontinuation of dialysis, the revised form includes questions about patient and family involvement ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Treatment Refusal - Legislation & jurisprudence'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Live and let die. 5 Oct 2009
• [Patient autonomy at the end of life: "law regarding advance directives" confirms the previously assumed legal status] 30 Aug 2009
• Stopping eating and drinking. 30 Aug 2009
• When "no" means no: elderly patients' right to refuse treatment. 11 Aug 2009
• Medicolegal knowledge in New Zealand. 5 Aug 2009
• Knowledge and participation of front-line dialysis facility staff in end-of-life discussions. 30 Jul 2009
• Covert medication in older adults who lack decision-making capacity. 30 Jul 2009
• Refusal of treatment--the need for better communication. 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
• Punishment for refusing OPV. 30 May 2009
• Advance directives: binding or merely indicative? Incoherence of the Portuguese National Council of Ethics for the Life Sciences and insufficiencies of newly proposed regulation. 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
• 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
• Distinguishing among irrational suicide and other forms of hastened death: implications for clinical practice. 29 Apr 2009
• Constitutional law--substantive due process--Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds that criminal defendant's best interests justify forcible medication.--Commonwealth v. Sam, 952 A.2d 565 (Pa. 2008). 29 Apr 2009
• Hospital treatment for incapacitated adults. 15 Apr 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