Beneficent persuasion: Techniques and ethical guidelines to improve patients' decisions

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 260-264

  Swindell, J S ^a   McGuire, Amy L ^a   Halpern, Scott D ^b,c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Ethics; Informed consent; Persuasive communication; Professional autonomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHICS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MOTIVATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MOTIVATION; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY;

EID: 77952537988     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: 15441717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.1118     Document Type: Article

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