Physician Recommendations and Patient Autonomy: Finding a Balance between Physician Power and Patient Choice

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 125, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 763-769

  Quill, Timothy E ^a   Brody, Howard ^b  

^a Genesee Hospital   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BENEFICENCE; CASE REPORT; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PATERNALISM; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BENEFICENCE; DECISION MAKING; DISCLOSURE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATERNALISM; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 0030294266     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-125-9-199611010-00010     Document Type: Review

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