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Intensive Care to Facilitate Organ Donation: Insights From the French Guidelines. [PDF]

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Le Dorze M   +4 more
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Refusal of treatment

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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Refusal of Treatment

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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Treatment Refusal

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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Treatment refusal in adolescents

Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 1986
Abstract 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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Refusal of treatment during pregnancy

Clinics in Perinatology, 2003
A 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, 2022
The “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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