THE RIGHT TO REFUSE TREATMENT

The Right to Refuse Treatment

THE RIGHT TO REFUSE TREATMENT

For the purpose of the entire paper, the following shall be considered and tailored upon respectively.

•Introduction

•Impact of Health Care System

•Care Models

•Palliative Care

•Outcomes

•Clinical Features of the Chronic Critical Illness Syndrome

•Substance Abuse: A key concern

•System Linkages between the Juvenile Justice And Adolescent Treatment System

•Clinical and Programmatic Issues Involved In The Planning For Sa Treatment Of Juvenile Offenders

•Factors Involved In Engaging Hard-To-Reach Pregnant Population

•Preventing Complications

•Children require a mother and a father

•ConclusionIntroduction

This paper shall help us understand the core ethical and legal issues involved in patient's resistance towards the right of treatment. Thus for the sole purpose and objective of making significant amends, it has been viable noted and justified that no matter how far and wide a person survives, they sooner or later will help to make more viable and justified amends and make more use of themselves accordingly (Koepke , 1992 ,228).

In this paper, we shall discuss the notion, 'Do pregnant women have implications towards substance abuse and that do they have the right to refuse life saving medical treatment?' This needs to be seriously considered and catered no matter what the consequence the fetus may bring in the future.

Impact on Health Care System

Chronic critical illness is a serious and growing problem for the U.S. health care system and an emerging challenge in other countries. For the pregnant women, no matter how finicky, agitated, underestimated, flawed, faulted or simply suppressed they maybe, proper medication In population-based studies in the United States, the incidence of respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation has been increasing by as much as 5.5% per year and will soon increase at an even faster rate as Baby Boomers pass age 60, when the risk of respiratory failure rises dramatically (Blankenhorn, 1995, 219).

Numbers of the chronically critically ill, who are mostly older adults, will increase as much or more. Analysis of a state database of hospital discharges showed that the incidence of tracheotomy for prolonged ventilation nearly tripled between 1993 and 2002, from 8.3 per 100,000 populations to 24.2 per 100,000. Another population-based study projected that the number of patients requiring mechanical ventilation for at least 7 days in the United States will more than double from 250,000 in 2000 to more than 600,000 in 2020. Although the chronically critically ill account for fewer than 10% of those receiving mechanical ventilation, they consume between 20 and 40%of ICU bed days and other critical care resources.

Because functional limitations are common, even patients who recover sufficiently to permit discharge from an inpatient facility typically require paid care giving as outpatients or family members must leave jobs to provide ongoing care. The overall cost to the health care system for the management of chronic critical illness already exceeds an estimated $20 billion per year and is expected to climb with increases in the incidence of this syndrome and in overall expenditures for critical care, which nearly doubled between 1985 and 2000 and represent 13% of all ...