The role of decision analysis in informed consent: Choosing between intuition and systematicity

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 647-656

  Ubel, P A ^a,b   Loewenstein, G ^c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Doctor patient communication; Informed consent; Medical ethics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT INFORMATION;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; INTUITION; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 0031031111     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00217-1     Document Type: Article

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