In our study with colorectal cancer patients in Taiwan, although aboriginals had a somewhat higher proportion of treatment refusers than non-aboriginals (10.22% vs. 8.45%), aboriginal status was not correlated with either treatment refusal or survival.
I wouldn't have learned this if my doctors, nurses and family hadn't openly and persistently questioned my treatment refusal.
These findings may be useful for understanding treatment refusal and attrition in substance abuse treatment programs.
Nevertheless, the interviewees experienced various instances of treatment refusal, discrimination and racism.
While fit to our purpose of identifying expressions that factor into patient's decision to reject bisphosphonate therapy, this study does not offer the depth of more complex communication analyses or qualitative attempts to identify the underlying framework of treatment refusal.
aevent: treatment refusal *P < 0.05.
Treatment Refusal: In the process of conducting this study, the issue regarding treatment refusal arose.
We separated relabelling from treatment refusal because they are conceptually distinguishable.
The only positive association of detention in participants with capacity is treatment refusal.
For 3 conditions (somatoform disorders, treatment refusal, and patient compliance), no data were found.
Treatment refusal, recent violence and inability to relabel symptoms as pathological were all associated with detention.
