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Descriptor English:   Treatment Refusal 
Descriptor Spanish:   Negativa del Paciente al Tratamiento 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Recusa do Paciente ao Tratamento 
Synonyms English:   Patient Elopement
Elopement, Patient
Elopements, Patient
Patient Elopements
Refusal, Treatment
Refusals, Treatment
Treatment Refusals
Patient Refusal of Treatment
Refusal of Treatment  
Tree Number:   F01.145.488.800
I01.880.604.473.650.968
N03.706.437.650.875
N05.300.150.600.800
Definition English:   Patient or client refusal of or resistance to medical, psychological, or psychiatric treatment. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed.) 
Indexing Annotation English:   for patient non-compliance index PATIENT NON-COMPLIANCE see PATIENT COMPLIANCE; do not confuse with PHYSICIAN REFUSAL TO TREAT see REFUSAL TO TREAT
See Related English:   Informed Consent
Mental Competency
Patient Compliance
Patient Dropouts
 
History Note English:   1991 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
ES ethics EH ethnology
HI history LJ legislation & jurisprudence
PX psychology SN statistics & numerical data
TD trends  
Record Number:   29140 
Unique Identifier:   D016312 

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