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Clinical aspects of treatment refusal [PDF]

open access: yesComprehensive Psychiatry, 1982
Abstract A patient's refusal of psychotropic medications is often dealt with as a legal problem requiring a legal solution. Such an approach, however, may severely compromise future therapeutic efforts with that patient. Rather than immediately attempting to override a patient's refusal, the clinician should examine the factors underlying the refusal,
P S, Appelbaum, T G, Gutheil
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School Refusal: Clinical Features, Diagnosis and Treatment [PDF]

open access: yesPsikiyatride Güncel Yaklaşımlar, 2010
Children regularly and voluntarily go to school in order to fulfill the expectations of society from them to continue their education or schooling. School continuation has been made compulsory by laws.
Kayhan Bahali, Aysegul Yolga Tahiroglu
doaj   +2 more sources

Refusal of pharmacological treatment: prevalence and clinical importance [PDF]

open access: yesРациональная фармакотерапия в кардиологии
This article addresses the issue of refusal of pharmacological treatment. Limited literature data concerning the clinical significance of treatment refusal in patients with internal organ diseases are presented.
S. Yu. Martsevich   +9 more
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Risk factors associated with treatment refusal in lung cancer. [PDF]

open access: yesThorac Cancer, 2017
BackgroundThe incidence of lung cancer is increasing with longer life expectancy. Refusal of active treatment for cancer is prone to cause patients to experience more severe symptoms and shorten survival.
Suh WN   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Responding to Categorical Denial, Refusal, and Treatment Drop-Out [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This chapter examines the reasons why sex offenders refuse to participate in or drop out of treatment, or maintain their denial of responsibility. Our argument is that there are most often understandable reasons for each of these offender responses and ...
Nicholas Blagden, Jayson Ware
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J. Skelly Wright and Refusal of Treatment [PDF]

open access: yes, 1982
In 1964, District of Columbia Appeals Court Judge J. Skelly Wright, acting on the application of Georgetown University Hospital, issued a writ permitting the hospital to overrule the refusal of life-saving blood transfusions by a Jehovah's Witness ...
Wreen, Michael
core   +1 more source

¿Derecho a morir con dignidad?

open access: yesBiomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2008
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
doaj   +1 more source

The necessity of treating the patient and the doctor's risk; Duty or authority in the treatment [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات فقه و حقوق اسلامی, 2023
According to the second paragraph of the single article of the Penal Law, refusing to help the injured and remove the danger to life (approved 3/5/1354), which shows the general rule in Iranian law and the similar rule in countries that are members of ...
Mohammad Abouata
doaj   +1 more source

Patients’ Perspectives on Commencing Oral Anticoagulants in Atrial Fibrillation: An Exploratory Qualitative Descriptive Study

open access: yesPharmacy, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

The quality of informed consent from nurses’ and hospitalized patients’ points of view in Iran: A cross-sectional study [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Nursing Reports in Clinical Practice
Informed consent constitutes a fundamental aspect of patient rights. How informed consent is procured significantly influences patient satisfaction during the treatment and care continuum and contributes to decreased mortality associated with high-risk ...
Naser Mozaffari   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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