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Therapeutics > Patient Care > Withholding Treatment
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services > Health Services > Patient Care > Withholding Treatment

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Withholding Treatment  

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Entry terms

  • Cessation of Treatment
  • Treatment Cessation
  • Treatment Cessations

Note

  • human only; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE: do not coord with WITHHOLDING TREATMENT unless particularly discussed

Scope note

  • Withholding or withdrawal of a particular treatment or treatments, often (but not necessarily) life-prolonging treatment, from a patient or from a research subject as part of a research protocol. The concept is differentiated from REFUSAL TO TREAT, where the emphasis is on the health professional's or health facility's refusal to treat a patient or group of patients when the patient or the patient's representative requests treatment. Withholding of life-prolonging treatment is usually indexed only with EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE, unless the distinction between withholding and withdrawing treatment, or the issue of withholding palliative rather than curative treatment, is discussed.

History note

  • 2002; for WITHDRAWING CARE use EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE 1999-2001

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D028761

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