nontreatment
No medical intervention
Nontreatment is the absence or withholding of treatment, especially medical care.
The term appears in discussions of patient rights, end-of-life decisions, and healthcare ethics: The family chose nontreatment after consulting with hospice.
It also describes control groups in research that receive no intervention: The nontreatment group showed no improvement.
Act of leaving permanently
- disregardWillful lack of attention
- omissionFailure to include
- failureLack of success
- negligenceFailure to exercise care
malpractice · withholding · denial · unaddressed · ignored · overlooked · unmanaged · inadequate
Keeping from another
- refusalAct of declining
- denialRefusal to accept reality
- palliativeOffering relief, not remedy
- hospiceTerminal illness comfort program
DNR · terminal · prognosis · futility · observation · monitoring · conservative · expectant
Independent decision-making capacity
- consentVoluntary agreement given
- decisionSettled course of action
- bioethicsMoral philosophy for medicine
- paternalismControlling others for their good
beneficence · self-determination · competence · capacity · informed · proxy · surrogate · guardian
abandonment
Act of leaving permanently
negligence · malpractice · withholding · denial · unaddressed · ignored · overlooked · unmanaged · inadequate · inaccessible
withholding
Keeping from another
- refusalAct of declining
- denialRefusal to accept reality
- palliativeOffering relief, not remedy
hospice · DNR · terminal · prognosis · futility · observation · monitoring · conservative · expectant · supportive
autonomy
Independent decision-making capacity
- consentVoluntary agreement given
- decisionSettled course of action
- bioethicsMoral philosophy for medicine
paternalism · beneficence · self-determination · competence · capacity · informed · proxy · surrogate · guardian · dignity
nontreatmenttreatment
Care for an ailment
intervention · therapy · medical care · clinical intervention · medical intervention
nontreatmentaction
Process of doing
intervention · response · engagement · remediation · handling
nontreatmenttreatment
Care for an ailment
attention · engagement · intervention · management · tending
treat, treatment, treated, treating, untreated, treatise, treatable, treatments, mistreatment