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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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Advance decisions to refuse treatment
British Journal of Nursing, 2019Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, considers the case of NHS Cumbria CCG v Rushton [2018] , and the importance of recording and giving effect to advance decisions to refuse treatment
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Suicide Attempts and Treatment Refusals
Hastings Center Report, 2010It is now well established that competent patients have a legal right to refuse life-sustaining treatment. When patients are unable to make contemporaneous medical choices, the law supports honoring treatment refusals expressed in advance directives. In contrast, just three states permit physician-assisted suicide, and their laws cover only patients ...
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Consent and Refusal of Treatment
Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1993Clearly, a multitude of potential consent problems can exist for the emergency physician. It is difficult at times to balance the concepts of patient autonomy with the desire to provide optimal medical care. Experienced emergency physicians should be able to individualize the type of consent needed in a particular situation, based on a clinical ...
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Evaluation of COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal in Parents
Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2021Metin Yigit, Aslinur Ozkaya-Parlakay
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