 Withholding Treatment
"Withholding Treatment" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
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.
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D028761
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.760.952 N02.421.585.952
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| Concept/Terms |
Withholding Treatment- Withholding Treatment
- Treatment, Withholding
- Treatments, Withholding
- Withholding Treatments
- Cessation of Treatment
- Treatment Cessation
- Treatment Cessations
Withdrawing Treatment- Withdrawing Treatment
- Treatment, Withdrawing
- Treatments, Withdrawing
- Withdrawing Treatments
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| 1988 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1992 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Withholding Treatment" by people in Profiles.
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Mantel J. Legal barriers to physicians' stewardship role. Am J Bioeth. 2014; 14(9):40-2.
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Childers ME, Woods SP, Letendre S, McCutchan JA, Rosario D, Grant I, Mindt MR, Ellis RJ. Cognitive functioning during highly active antiretroviral therapy interruption in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection. J Neurovirol. 2008 Nov; 14(6):550-7.
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Walters JW. Proximate personhood as a standard for making difficult treatment decisions: imperiled newborns as a case study. Bioethics. 1992 Jan; 6(1):12-22.
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Walters JW. Approaches to ethical decision making in the neonatal intensive care unit. Am J Dis Child. 1988 Aug; 142(8):825-30.
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