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Medical Journal of Australia, 2001
Patients' thoughts, feelings and desires are communicated in a variety of ways, and require sympathetic, critical interpretation. Patients need clear, evidence-based medical information so that they can make their own decisions about whether to consent to or refuse medical treatment. Treatment refusal may provide an opportunity to introduce patients to
Parker, MH, Tobin, B
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Patients' thoughts, feelings and desires are communicated in a variety of ways, and require sympathetic, critical interpretation. Patients need clear, evidence-based medical information so that they can make their own decisions about whether to consent to or refuse medical treatment. Treatment refusal may provide an opportunity to introduce patients to
Parker, MH, Tobin, B
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Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1986
The decision regarding refusal of treatment ultimately rests with competent adult patients. When the elderly patients is an inadequate or incompetent decision-maker, in order to protect the interests of the patient, the physician should have some knowledge of the way decisions are and ought to be made, particularly when a decision to forgo life ...
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The decision regarding refusal of treatment ultimately rests with competent adult patients. When the elderly patients is an inadequate or incompetent decision-maker, in order to protect the interests of the patient, the physician should have some knowledge of the way decisions are and ought to be made, particularly when a decision to forgo life ...
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2017
Management of treatment refusal can be legally and ethically complicated. Patients may refuse various types of treatment, including medications, group and individual psychotherapy, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and surgical procedures. Historically, patients with mental illness have had limited rights to refuse treatment.
Ariana Nesbit +2 more
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Management of treatment refusal can be legally and ethically complicated. Patients may refuse various types of treatment, including medications, group and individual psychotherapy, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and surgical procedures. Historically, patients with mental illness have had limited rights to refuse treatment.
Ariana Nesbit +2 more
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Treatment refusal in adolescents
Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 1986Abstract While treatment refusal is a relatively uncommon problem, its occurrence creates a difficult situation for all involved. Clinicians must recognize all the factors that influence adolescent decision-making and understand their relative importance to the individual patient. Attempts to convince the teenager to accept therapy should be based on
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Uveal Melanoma: Refusal of Treatment
Ocular Oncology and Pathology, 2021<b><i>Purpose:</i></b> This study aimed to explore factors for refusing treatment in patients diagnosed with uveal melanoma and their subsequent clinical course. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> This study included patients with uveal melanoma who refused standard of care treatment. Patient-reported reasons and pre-
Randy Christopher Bowen +4 more
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Refusal of treatment during pregnancy
Clinics in Perinatology, 2003A survey of maternal-fetal medicine fellowship directors in the 1980s found that many supported coercive treatment of pregnant women for the sake of their potential children. To examine whether legal, social, and medical developments since then have led to changes in practice or attitudes about this issue, we surveyed current directors of maternal ...
Sarah F, Adams +2 more
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The “Right” to refuse treatment
Medicine, Science and the Law, 2022The “right” of an adult patient with capacity to refuse treatment has been very well recognized by the courts over the years. Recently, it was the central issue in this recent case, PH (by his litigation friend, the Official Solicitor) v Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board ([2022] EWCOP 16).
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Patients’ refusal of recommended treatment
International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 2015AbstractWhen patients require information to decide whether to accept recommended treatments, a question in both law and ethics is whether the same information is adequate whether they consent or refuse, or whether refusal requires more or repeated information.
Bernard M, Dickens, Rebecca J, Cook
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Patients' right to refuse treatment
Hospital Medicine, 2002The recent decision by the High Court to allow a woman paralysed from the neck down to end her life by refusing treatment upholds a competent patient's right to decline treatment, even if this would lead to his or her own death [Re B v NHS Trust 2002].
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Cancer patients who refuse treatment
Cancer Causes & Control, 1993The value of cancer treatment was assessed using a 'natural experiment' where patients who refused treatment served as no-treatment controls in a situation where withholding treatment to form a control group is unethical. Each cancer patient who refused treatment in Alberta, Canada between 1975 and 1988 was compared with five subjects who accepted ...
S A, Huchcroft, T, Snodgrass
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