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Withholding Treatment - Ethics
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Definition of 'Withholding Treatment'Withholding or withdrawal of a particular treatment or treatments, often (but not necessarily) life-prolonging treatment, from a patient or from a research subject as part of a research protocol. The concept is differentiated from REFUSAL TO TREAT, where the emphasis is on the health professional's or health facility's refusal to treat a patient or group of patients when the patient or the patient's representative requests treatment. Withholding of life-prolonging treatment is usually indexed only with EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE, unless the distinction between withholding and withdrawing treatment, or the issue of withholding palliative rather than curative treatment, is discussed. |
Sunday, November 22, 2009
From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration.
29 Nov 2009 
The withdrawal, withholding, or implementation of life-sustaining treatments such as artificial nutrition and hydration challenge nurses on a daily basis. To meet these challenges, nurses need the composite skills of moral and ethical discernment, ... Read more...
Autonomy, beneficence, and gezelligheid: lessons in moral theory from the Dutch.
30 Aug 2009 American bioethicists lack the theoretical resources to work in cross-cultural settings. All we have are two approaches to ethics--principles vs. narratives--that are mostly at odds, and neither of which is up to the job. If moral principles are too ... Read more...
Child-rearing ability and the provision of fertility services.
3 Aug 2009 Fertility programs may withhold services when there are reasonable grounds for thinking that patients will not provide adequate child-rearing to offspring but are not obligated to do so. This document was reviewed in June 2009 and while no changes ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Withholding Treatment - Ethics'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration. 29 Nov 2009
- When is the request of a surrogate too unreasonable to follow?
30 Oct 2009 - Death in the Netherlands: evidence and argument. 29 Sep 2009
- Autonomy, beneficence, and gezelligheid: lessons in moral theory from the Dutch. 30 Aug 2009
- Saturday morning in the clinic. 30 Aug 2009
- Controversies abound in end-of-life decisions. 30 Aug 2009
- Child-rearing ability and the provision of fertility services. 3 Aug 2009
- Using mediation in situations of withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: a New South Wales perspective. 30 Jul 2009
- Clinical report--Forgoing medically provided nutrition and hydration in children. 25 Jul 2009
- The use of placebos to mollify difficult patients: in their best interests? 22 Jul 2009
- Selective resuscitation in premature twins: an ethical analysis. 29 Jun 2009
- Mandatory ethics consultation policy. 29 Jun 2009
- Navigating the chasm between religious and secular perspectives in modern bioethics. 30 May 2009
- Should implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and permanent pacemakers in patients with terminal illness be deactivated? Deactivating permanent pacemaker in patients with terminalillness. Patient autonomy is paramount. 30 May 2009
- Should implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and permanent pacemakers in patients with terminal illness be deactivated? Deactivating implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and permanent pacemakers in patients with terminal illness. An ethical distinction. 30 May 2009
- The incoherence of determining death by neurological criteria: a commentary on "Controversies in the determination of death", a White Paper by the President's Council on Bioethics. 30 May 2009
- The right to nutrition and hydration: a need for vigilance. 30 May 2009
- [Intensive care at the end of life] 30 May 2009
- For an indeterministic ethics. The emptiness of the rule in dubio pro vita and life cessation decisions.
12 May 2009 - End-of-life decisions in the newborn period: attitudes and practices of doctors and nurses. 29 Apr 2009
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Technical information about 'Withholding Treatment'
Definition: Withholding or withdrawal of a particular treatment or treatments, often (but not necessarily) life-prolonging treatment, from a patient or from a research subject as part of a research protocol. The concept is differentiated from REFUSAL TO TREAT, where the emphasis is on the health professional's or health facility's refusal to treat a patient or group of patients when the patient or the patient's representative requests treatment. Withholding of life-prolonging treatment is usually indexed only with EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE, unless the distinction between withholding and withdrawing treatment, or the issue of withholding palliative rather than curative treatment, is discussed.
Descriptor UI: D028761
Alternative terms: Withholding Treatment; Treatment, Withholding; Treatments, Withholding; Withholding Treatments; Cessation of Treatment; Treatment Cessation; Treatment Cessations; Withdrawing Treatment; Treatment, Withdrawing; Treatments, Withdrawing; Withdrawing Treatments; Withdrawing Care; Care, Withdrawing;
Related Mesh Headings: Resuscitation Orders;
Allowable Qualifiers: economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;
Tree Number: E02.760.952; N02.421.585.952;
History Note: 2002; for WITHDRAWING CARE use EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE 1999-2001
Technical Notes: human only; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE: do not coord with WITHHOLDING TREATMENT unless particularly discussed