Patient-reported reasons for declining or discontinuing statin therapy: Insights from the PALM registry [PDF]
Background: Many adults eligible for statin therapy for cardiovascular disease prevention are untreated. Our objective was to investigate patient‐reported reasons for statin underutilization, including noninitiation, refusal, and discontinuation.Methods ...
Bradley, Corey K +10 more
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Characteristics and outcomes of school refusal in Hiroshima, Japan: proposals for network therapy. [PDF]
The authors conducted a study on children undergoing treatment at major school refusal treatment centers in Hiroshima Prefecture. On the whole, school refusal in the prefecture was found to peak between 13 and 14 years of age.
Aoki, Shozo +3 more
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The relationship between cannabis outcome expectancies and cannabis refusal self-efficacy in a treatment population [PDF]
Background and aims: Self-efficacy beliefs and outcome expectancies are central to Social Cognitive Theory (SCT). Alcohol studies demonstrate the theoretical and clinical utility of applying both SCT constructs.
Aarons +59 more
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¿Derecho a morir con dignidad?
El derecho a morir con dignidad es un concepto vago y que recibe múltiples interpretaciones, muchas de ellas inapropiadas. Se propone la necesidad de que sea el médico quien se haga responsable de proteger los derechos del paciente, de garantizar el uso ...
Álvaro Ruiz
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Background: Oral anticoagulants (OACs) are prescribed to patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) in order to lower stroke risk. However, patient refusal to commence OACs hinders effective anticoagulation.
Eyob Alemayehu Gebreyohannes +5 more
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Characteristics, survival, and related factors of newly diagnosed colorectal cancer patients refusing cancer treatments under a universal health insurance program [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide. Few studies have addressed the causes and risks of treatment refusal in a universal health insurance setting.
Chang-Fang Chiu +6 more
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Physicians' evaluations of patients' decisions to refuse oncological treatment [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: To gain insight into the standards of rationality that physicians use when evaluating patients' treatment refusals. DESIGN OF THE STUDY: Qualitative design with in depth interviews.
Kleffens, T van, Leeuwen, E
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Internalizing Symptoms as Predictors of School Absenteeism Severity at Multiple Levels: Ensemble and Classification and Regression Tree Analysis [PDF]
School attendance problems are highly prevalent worldwide, leading researchers to investigate many different risk factors for this population. Of considerable controversy is how internalizing behavior problems might help to distinguish different types of
Fornander, Mirae J. +1 more
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Novel metaphors comprehension in a child with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders. A study on assessment and treatment [PDF]
Until the first decade of the current millennium, the literature on metaphor comprehension highlighted typical difficulties in children with high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
MELOGNO, Sergio +2 more
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Components underlying sex offender treatment refusal: An exploratory analysis of the Treatment Refusal Scale - Sex Offender Version [PDF]
Around half of sexual offenders in prison and community settings refuse to participate in sex offender treatment programmes; however the reasons for this remain largely unexplored.
Brown, Sarah J., Tully, R.
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