Respecting patient autonomy

Description:

Shows how dialogue between patients and health care providers can clarify both medical and ethical issues, promoting patient autonomy and advancing health care. Addresses fundamental questions about how medical decisions should be reached, by framing health care issues and decisions in terms of the values and goals they promote. Explores the relationship between patients and health care providers using real clinical situations.

subjects: Medical care,  Autonomy (Psychology),  Patient participation,  Decision making,  Patient satisfaction,  Autonomie (Psychologie),  Bioethics,  Arzt,  Patients,  Relation médecin-patient,  Participation des patients,  Selbstbestimmung,  Dialogue,  Patient,  Prise de décision,  Satisfaction,  Patient Care,  Medizinische Ethik,  Soins médicaux,  Malade,  Entscheidung,  Physician and patient,  Hospital patients, legal status, laws, etc.,  Attitude to Health,  Physician-Patient Relations,  Freedom,  Medical Ethics