Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] to treatment " in BNC.

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1 No minor of whatever age has power by refusing consent to treatment to override a consent to treatment by someone who has parental responsibility for the minor and a fortiori a consent by the court .
2 Thorpe J. having held that ‘ there is no doubt at all that J. is a child of sufficient understanding to make an informed decision , ’ I shall assume that , so far as the common law is concerned , Lord Scarman would have decided that neither the local authority nor W. 's aunt , both of whom had parental responsibilities , could give consent to treatment which would be effective in the face of W. 's refusal of consent .
3 Biochemical indicators of renal tubular stimulation predicted response to treatment , but these indicators depended on the response criteria used : low serum phosphate and low TmP correlated with a poor response when length of response was examined , whereas TmCa correlated with a fall in CCa from day 0 to day 6 , and accord with other studies that used this response criterion .
4 What the court can do is to withhold consent to treatment of which it disapproves and it can express its approval of other treatment proposed by the authority and its doctors . ’
5 Certainly a child over the age of 16 may give valid consent to medical treatment ( Family Law Reform Act 1969 , s8 ) and may be presumed to have the capacity to withhold consent to treatment and examination unless mentally incapacitated in some way .
6 Measurement of bone density is helpful in assessing the risk of oesteoporosis in patients and in monitoring response to treatment .
7 Essentially what all are saying is that a right to consent to medical treatment , whether required under the common law ( see Gillick 's case ) or under statute ( section 8 ) , must and does carry with it a right not only to refuse consent to treatment , but to refuse the treatment itself .
8 Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) .
9 Multivariate analysis has shown that only a mild histological picture ( chronic persistent hepatitis ) is an independent pretreatment variable that predicts response to treatment .
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