Refusal to Participate

"Refusal to Participate" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Refusal to take part in activities or procedures that are requested or expected of an individual. This may include refusal by HEALTH PERSONNEL to participate in specific medical procedures or refusal by PATIENTS or members of the public to take part in clinical trials or health promotion programs.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Refusal to Participate" by people in this website by year, and whether "Refusal to Participate" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Refusal to Participate" by people in Profiles.
  1. Interprofessional Abortion Opposition: A National Survey and Qualitative Interviews with Abortion Training Program Directors at U.S. Teaching Hospitals. Perspect Sex Reprod Health. 2020 12; 52(4):235-244.
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  2. Parental Factors Associated With the Decision to Participate in a Neonatal Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 01 04; 4(1):e2032106.
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  3. Refusing Testing During a Pandemic. Am J Public Health. 2020 09; 110(9):1354-1355.
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  4. Enhancing the Informed Consent Process Using Shared Decision Making and Consent Refusal Data from the CLEAR III Trial. Neurocrit Care. 2020 02; 32(1):340-347.
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  5. Multilevel Factors Predicting Cardiac Rehabilitation Attendance and Adherence in Underserved Patients at a Safety-Net Hospital. J Cardiopulm Rehabil Prev. 2019 03; 39(2):97-104.
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  6. Providers' perspectives on denial of abortion care in Nepal: a cross sectional study. Reprod Health. 2018 Oct 11; 15(1):170.
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  7. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Parental Refusal of Consent in a Large, Multisite Pediatric Critical Care Clinical Trial. J Pediatr. 2017 05; 184:204-208.e1.
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  8. Understanding vaccination resistance: vaccine search term selection bias and the valence of retrieved information. Vaccine. 2014 Oct 07; 32(44):5776-80.
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  9. Generalizability in the family-to-family education program randomized waitlist-control trial. Psychiatr Serv. 2013 Aug 01; 64(8):754-63.
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  10. Predictors of retention among African American and Hispanic older adult research participants in the Well Elderly 2 randomized controlled trial. J Appl Gerontol. 2014 Apr; 33(3):357-82.
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