How doctors and patients discuss routine clinical decisions: Informed decision making in the outpatient setting

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 339-345

  Braddock III, Clarence H ^a,b   Fihn, Stephan D ^a,b   Levinson, Wendy ^c   Jonsen, Albert R ^a   Pearlman, Robert A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Decision making; Ethics, medical; Informed consent; Physician patient relationship

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; OUTPATIENTS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0030957727     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.1997.00057.x     Document Type: Article

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