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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.
Bar chart showing 2 publications over 2 distinct years, with a maximum of 1 publications in 1997 and 2011
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