Sentence examples for of patient refusal from inspiring English sources

The causes of refusal were: 176 (47.1%) the patient was "too good", 167 (44.7%) related to qualitative futility, 24 (6.4%) was "too bad", 4 (1.1%) a lack of beds and in 3 cases (1%) because of patient refusal.

In 16 patients biopsies were not performed because of patient refusal, a contra-indication or a positive culture of fluid, or histology from another site, prior to attempted pleural biopsy.

Protionamide was stopped because of patient refusal in 2001.

Five patients did not proceed to the second cycle because of patient refusal (n=2) or disease progression (n=3).

Treatment was stopped early in cases of patient refusal, severe toxicity, documented progressive disease (PD) or pregnancy.

Another 25 50% of the patients do not receive adjuvant therapy because of insufficient recovery from surgery or because of patient refusal of therapy.

Corticosteroids were not administered to these patients because of patients' refusal.

Patients with dyspepsia in rural Greece tend to avoid upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, with two major axons considered to be the causes of patients' refusal: their beliefs towards endoscopy and their personal capability to cope with it.

Rates for patient refusal of chemotherapy were similar (3% overall) between poverty and payer groups.

Exclusion criteria were pregnancy, legally incapacitated patient, lack of written consent of trusted person or next-of-kind, high risk of death during the next 72 h and clinician in charge of the patient refusal.

Patients were scheduled to receive a maximum of 8 cycles and chemotherapy was stopped in case of progression, patient refusal and unacceptable toxicity.