withholding treatment

Preferred Label : withholding treatment;

MeSH definition : 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.;

MeSH synonym : treatment cessations; treatment cessation; treatment, withholding; treatments, withholding; withholding treatments; cessation of treatment;

Wikipedia automatic translation : Lata, Solomon Islands;

Related MeSH term : withdrawing treatment; withdrawing care; Treatment, Withdrawing; Treatments, Withdrawing; Withdrawing Treatments; Care, Withdrawing;

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

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lata, Solomon Islands;

Details

Origin ID

D028761;

UMLS CUI

C0871549;

Allowable qualifiers
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
False automatic mappings
- L-Type Amino Acid Transporter [NCIt concept]
- long-acting thyroid stimulator [SNOMED Notion]
Ne pas confondre avec
- patient dropouts [MeSH Descriptor]
- refusal to treat [MeSH Descriptor]
Record concept(s)
- withdrawing care [MeSH concept]
- withdrawing treatment [MeSH concept]
- withholding treatment [MeSH concept]
See also
- Drug Tapering [MeSH Descriptor]
- euthanasia, passive [MeSH Descriptor]
- resuscitation orders [MeSH Descriptor]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- Deprescriptions [MeSH Descriptor]
See also inter- (CISMeF)
- Therapy cessation [MedDRA Preferred Term]
Semantic type(s)
- Health Care Activity [UMLS semantic type]

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