Relevant Publications
Compassion Fatigue
Communication
Alternative Medicine
Cultural Competency
Providers as Patients
Empathy/Compassion
Health Literacy
Health Policy
Hope
Narrative Medicine
End-of-Life Care
Patient Empowerment
Clinical Relationships
Quality of Care
Risk Management
Spirituality
Health Care Training
Treatment Refusal
Schwartz Rounds Cases

Relevant Publications

TREATMENT REFUSAL

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [ACOG]. Committee on Professional Liability. Informed refusal. ACOG committee opinion no. 166. ACOG Comm Opin. 1995;166.

Aveyard H. The patient who refuses nursing care. J Med Ethics. 2004;30(4):346-50.

Barilan Y, Weintraub M. Persuasion as respect for persons; an alternative view of autonomy and of the limits of discourse. J Med Philos. 2001;26(1):13-33.

Baston S. The right to refuse. Emerg Nurse. 2007;14(10):12-8.

Brezina P, Moskop J. Urgent medical decision making regarding a Jehovah’s Witness minor: a case report and discussion. N C Med J. 2007;68(5):312-6.

Carrese J. Refusal of care: patients’ well-being and physicians’ ethical obligations: “but doctor, I want to go home.” JAMA. 2006;296(6):691-5.

English D. Addressing a patient’s refusal of care based on religious beliefs. Am Fam Physician. 2007;76(9):1393-4.

Garwin M. The duty to care – the right to refuse. Changing roles of patients and physicians in end-of-life decision making. J Leg Med. 998;19(1):99-125. Review.

Huang T, Yang M, Wen J, Yeh E. Treatment refusal: analysis of 15 cases. Chang Gung Med J. 2000;23(4):218-23.

Huijer M, van Leeuwen E. Personal values and cancer treatment refusal. J Med Ethics. 2000;26(5):358-62.

Ibrahim S, Kwoh C, Krishnan E. Factors associated with patients who leave acute-care hospitals against medical advice. Am J Public Health. 2007;97(12):2204-8.

Knuti K, Amrein P, Chabner B, Lynch T. Faith, identity, and leukemia: when blood products are not an option. Oncologist. 2002;7(4):371-80.

Levy Y. Practical aspects of the issue of patients refusing medical care. Med Law. 2007;26(1):23-31.

Linnard-Palmer L, Kools S. Parents’ refusal of medical treatment for cultural or religious beliefs: an ethnographic study of health care professionals’ experiences. J Pediatr Oncol Nurs. 2005;22(1):48-57.

Madjar I, Kacen L, Ariad S, Denham J. Telling their stories, telling our stories: physicians’ experiences with patients who decide to forgo or stop treatment for cancer. Qual Health Res. 2007;17(4):428-41.

McGrath P. It’s ok to say no! A discussion of ethical issues arising from informed consent to chemotherapy. Cancer Nurs. 1995;18(2):97-103.

Muramoto O. Bioethics of the refusal of blood by Jehovah’s Witnesses: part 2. A novel approach based on rational non-interventional paternalism. J Med Ethics. 1998;24(5):295-301.

Muramoto O. Bioethics and the refusal of blood by Jehovah’s Witnesses: part 3. A proposal for a don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy. J Med Ethics. 1999;25(6):463-8. Review.

Murphy P. Are patients’ decisions to refuse treatment binding on health care professionals?
Bioethics. 2005;19(3):189-201.

Oppenheim D, Brugieres L, Corradini N, et al. An ethics dilemma: when parents and doctors disagree on the best treatment for the child. Bull Cancer. 2004;91(9):735-8.

Parker M, Tobin B. Refusal of treatment. Med J Aust. 2001;174(10):531-2.

Ridley D. Jehovah’s Witnesses’’ refusal of blood: obedience to scripture and religious conscience. J Med Ethics. 1999;25(6):469-72.

Russell S, Daly J, Hughes E, Hoog C. Nurses and ‘difficult’ patients: negotiating non-compliance. J Adv Nurs. 2003;43(3):281-7. Review.

Simon J. Refusal of care: the physician-patient relationship and decision-making capacity. Ann Emerg Med. 2007;50(4):456-61.

Tomkowiak J, Gunderson A. How do we ethically manage patients who refuse therapy? Rehabil Nurs. 2004;29(3):77,89.

Vuckovich P, Artinian B. Justifying coercion. Nurs Ethics. 2005;12(4):370-80.