Questioning the quantitative imperative: decision aids, prevention, and the ethics of disclosure.

Peter H Schwartz
Author Information
  1. Peter H Schwartz: Indiana University Center for Bioethics, USA.

Abstract

Patients should not always receive hard data about the risks and benefits of a medical intervention. That information should always be available to patients who expressly ask for it, but it should be part of standard disclosure only sometimes, and only for some patients. And even then, we need to think about how to offer it.

MeSH Term

Choice Behavior
Decision Making
Decision Support Techniques
Educational Status
Humans
Informed Consent
Judgment
Mathematical Computing
Problem Solving
Truth Disclosure

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