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Patient or client refusal of or resistance to medical, psychological, or psychiatric treatment. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed.)
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- Patient Refusal of Treatment
- Refusal of Treatment
- Treatment Refusals
- Anesthesia Refusal
- Avoidance of Health Care
- Avoidance of Healthcare
- Avoided Health Care
- Avoided Healthcare
- Health Care Avoidance
- Healthcare Avoidance
- Patient Elopement
- Anesthesia Refusals
- Elopement, Patient
- Refusal, Anesthesia
- Refusals, Anesthesia
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Indexed with the subheadings ethics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, psychology, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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for patient non-compliance index PATIENT NON-COMPLIANCE see PATIENT COMPLIANCE; do not confuse with PHYSICIAN REFUSAL TO TREAT see REFUSAL TO TREAT
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History Note
1991
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Previous Indexing
- Cooperative Behavior (1971-1974)
- Patient Compliance (1975-1990)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Treatment Refusal. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016312. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016312
- Treatment Refusal. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refusal_of_medical_assistance
- Treatment Refusal. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7307703