"Informed choice" in a time of too much medicine-no panacea for ethical difficulties

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 353, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Johansson, Minna ^a,b   Jørgensen, Karsten Juhl ^c   Getz, Linn ^d   Moynihan, Ray ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b FoUU centrum Fyrbodal   (Sweden)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; MORALITY;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MORALS;

EID: 84969900490     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.i2230     Document Type: Article

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