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

Alfandre D. From "I'm not staying!" to "I'm not leaving!": ethics, communication, and empathy in complicated medical discharges. Mt Sinai J Med. 2008 Sep 30;75(5):466-471.

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.

Berger JT. Discharge against medical advice: ethical considerations and professional obligations. J Hosp Med. 2008 Sep;3(5):403-8.

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.

Byrne SK. Healthcare avoidance: a critical review. Holist Nurs Pract. 2008 Sep-Oct;22(5):280-92.

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.

Davis JK. Futility, conscientious refusal, and who gets to decide. J Med Philos. 2008 Aug;33(4):356-73.

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.

Johnston CS. Overriding competent medical treatment refusal by adolescents - when 'no' means 'no.' Arch Dis Child. 2009 Mar 1.

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 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.

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.

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.

Windish DM, Ratanawongsa N. Providers' perceptions of relationships and professional roles when caring for patients who leave the hospital against medical advice. J Gen Intern Med. 2008 Oct;23(10):1698-707.