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.

Annotation

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

jen u lidí; PASIVNÍ EUTANAZIE: nekombinuj s NENASAZENÍM LÉČBY, ledaže se o ní v textu zvláště hovoří

DUI

D028761 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0382910

History note

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

Public note

2002; for WITHDRAWING CARE see EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE 1999-2001