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DeCS
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Descriptor English:
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Withholding Treatment
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Descriptor Spanish:
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Privación de Tratamiento
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Descriptor Portuguese:
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Contenção do Tratamento
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Synonyms English:
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Withdrawing Care
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Tree Number:
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E02.760.952
N02.421.585.952
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Definition English:
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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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Indexing Annotation English:
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human only; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE: do not coord with WITHHOLDING TREATMENT unless particularly discussed
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See Related English:
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Resuscitation Orders
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History Note English:
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2002; for WITHDRAWING CARE use EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE 1999-2001
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Allowable Qualifiers English:
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Record Number:
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36291
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Unique Identifier:
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D028761
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