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Withholding Treatment
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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. |
Saturday, November 21, 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...
A hemodynamic profile for consciousness during cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
30 Oct 2009 We report the quantification of a hemodynamic profile sufficient to support consciousness during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. A 62-yr-old man experienced cardiac arrest while being evaluated for heart failure after heart transplantation. During ... Read more...
End-of-life decisions in Dutch neonatal intensive care units.
29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To clarify the practice of end-of-life decision making in severely ill newborns. DESIGN: Retrospective descriptive study with face-to-face interviews. SETTING: The 10 neonatal intensive care units in the Netherlands from October 2005 to ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Withholding Treatment'
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 - A hemodynamic profile for consciousness during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. 30 Oct 2009
- Death in the Netherlands: evidence and argument. 29 Sep 2009
- End-of-life decisions in Dutch neonatal intensive care units. 29 Sep 2009
- Atropine treatment for myopia. 29 Sep 2009
- Dasatinib or high-dose imatinib for chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukemia resistant to imatinib at a dose of 400 to 600 milligrams daily: two-year follow-up of a randomized phase 2 study (START-R). 13 Sep 2009
- Media coverage of the persistent vegetative state and end-of-life decision-making: Theresa Schiavo's tragedy and ours, too. 13 Sep 2009
- Autonomy, beneficence, and gezelligheid: lessons in moral theory from the Dutch. 30 Aug 2009
- Saturday morning in the clinic. 30 Aug 2009
- Misgivings. 30 Aug 2009
- A 12-hour-old girl with multiple congenital anomalies. 30 Aug 2009
- Withdrawal of active treatment in intensive care: what is stopped - comparison between belief and practice. 30 Aug 2009
- Resuscitation at the limits of viability--an Irish perspective. 30 Aug 2009
- Controversies abound in end-of-life decisions. 30 Aug 2009
- The practice of and documentation on withholding and withdrawing life support: a retrospective study in two Dutch intensive care units. 30 Aug 2009
- Parity and subfertility effects of continuous oral contraceptive on fertility are important. 20 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
- Clinicopathologic evaluation of short-term outcome after early corticosteroid discontinuation in kidney transplantation. 30 Jul 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