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Descriptor English:   Withholding Treatment 
Descriptor Spanish:   suspensión del tratamiento 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Suspensão de Tratamento 
Synonyms English:   Care, Withdrawing
Cessation of Treatment
Treatment Cessation
Treatment Cessations
Treatment, Withdrawing
Treatment, Withholding
Treatments, Withdrawing
Treatments, Withholding
Withdrawing Care
Withdrawing Treatment
Withdrawing Treatments
Withholding Treatments  
Tree Number:   E02.760.952
N02.421.585.952
Definition English:   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. 
Indexing Annotation English:   human only; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE: do not coord with WITHHOLDING TREATMENT unless particularly discussed
See Related English:   Resuscitation Orders
 
History Note English:   2002; for WITHDRAWING CARE use EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE 1999-2001 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
EC economics ES ethics
HI history LJ legislation & jurisprudence
ST standards SN statistics & numerical data
TD trends  
Record Number:   36291 
Unique Identifier:   D028761 

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