"Refusal to Treat" 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.
Refusal of the health professional to initiate or continue treatment of a patient or group of patients. The refusal can be based on any reason. The concept is differentiated from PATIENT REFUSAL OF TREATMENT see TREATMENT REFUSAL which originates with the patient and not the health professional.
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D016079
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MeSH Number(s) |
N04.590.233.727.605 N05.300.100.675
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2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2017 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
2018 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Refusal to Treat" by people in Profiles.
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Conscience and Vaccines: Lessons from Babylon 5 and COVID-19. New Bioeth. 2021 Sep; 27(3):266-284.
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COVID-19: May hospitals in one province of South Africa reserve empty beds for patients from their province and turn down emergency requests from other provinces? S Afr Med J. 2021 02 15; 111(4):304-306.
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Doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic: what are their duties and what is owed to them? J Med Ethics. 2021 01; 47(1):12-15.
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A Duty to treat? A Right to refrain? Bangladeshi physicians in moral dilemma during COVID-19. Philos Ethics Humanit Med. 2020 09 09; 15(1):7.
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Understanding Ethical and Legal Obligations in a Pandemic: A Taxonomy of "Duty" for Health Practitioners. J Bioeth Inq. 2020 Dec; 17(4):697-701.
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Allocating Ventilators During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Conscientious Objection. Am J Bioeth. 2020 07; 20(7):204-207.
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Ethical considerations of the duty to care and physician safety in the COVID-19 pandemic. CJEM. 2020 07; 22(4):407-410.
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Should we deny ICU admission to the elderly? Ethical considerations in times of COVID-19. Crit Care. 2020 06 09; 24(1):321.
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The ethical challenges of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in the global south and the global north - same and different. Dev World Bioeth. 2020 06; 20(2):62-64.
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Prioritisation of ICU treatments for critically ill patients in a COVID-19 pandemic with scarce resources. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2020 06; 39(3):333-339.