Withholding Treatment. Cessation of Treatment . Withdrawing Treatment . Care, Withdrawing . Treatment Cessation . Treatment Cessations . Treatment, Withdrawing . Treatment, Withholding . Treatments, Withdrawing . Treatments, Withholding . Withdrawing Treatments . Withholding Treatments . Withdrawing Care . 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. . 1.00
/therapy. /disease management . /therapeutics . /treatment . Used with diseases for therapeutic interventions except drug therapy, diet therapy, radiotherapy, and surgery, for which specific subheadings exist. The concept is also used for articles and books dealing with multiple therapies. . 0.61
