Decision aids: When 'nudging' patients to make a particular choice is more ethical than balanced, nondirective content

Health Affairs

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 303-310

  Blumenthal Barby, J S ^a   Cantor, Scott B ^b   Russell, Heidi Voelker ^a   Naik, Aanand D ^a   Volk, Robert J ^c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ACUTE SINUSITIS; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; INCONTINENCE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; NEUROGENIC BOWEL; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PHYSICIAN; PROSTATE CANCER; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; UNITED STATES; AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHICS; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; WATCHFUL WAITING;

AGED; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; WATCHFUL WAITING;

EID: 84874780865     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2012.0761     Document Type: Article

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