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
Euthanasia, Passive. Euthanasia, Negative . Negative Euthanasia . Passive Euthanasia . Allowing to Die . Failing to prevent death from natural causes, for reasons of mercy by the withdrawal or withholding of life-prolonging treatment. . 0.54
