title: Non-compliance to treatment: can professionals ethically refuse to treat?
abstract: Professionals who work in health care have long been aware of patients who continually fail to adhere to treatment regimes recommended to them by their nurses, doctors and dieticians. This is no less a problem within the field of renal medicine. In the current climate where who to treat often causes more of a dilemma than how to treat, professionals in renal care frequently deliberate the fairness of treating those who persistently "non-comply".
authors.affiliation: General Infirmary, Leeds College of Health, Department of Nursing Education, UK.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Brooks
mesh_terms: D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D011209:Power, Psychological; D016079:Refusal to Treat; D016312:Treatment Refusal