Ethical decision making on truth telling in terminal cancer: Medical students' choices between patient autonomy and family paternalism

Medical Education

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 590-598

  Sheu, Shuh Jen ^a   Huang, Shu He ^a   Tang, Fu In ^a   Huang, Song Lih ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Institute of Clinical Medicine   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

*truth disclosure; Attitude of health personnel; Decision making; Ethics, medical; Humans; Neoplasms *psychology; Students, medical *psychology; Terminally ill

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CANCER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPREHENSION; CONFLICT; CONSULTATION; FAMILY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL STUDENT; MORALITY; PATERNALISM; PATIENT AUTONOMY; TAIWAN; TERMINAL CARE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PATERNALISM; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TERMINALLY ILL; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 33646687708     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2006.02477.x     Document Type: Article

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