Improving informed consent by implementing shared decisionmaking in health care

IRB Ethics and Human Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1-5

  Widdershoven, Guy A M ^a   Verheggen, Frank W S M ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTERS; DECISION MAKING; DISCLOSURE; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0033156474     PISSN: 01937758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3564417     Document Type: Article

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