Decision making in medicine and health care
By: Patricia C. Tolana, editor.
Contributors: Tolana, Patricia C.
Publisher: Nova Biomedical Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781600218705
Subjects: Medicine -- Decision making.; Medical care -- Decision making.; Informed consent (Medical law); Patient participation.; Physician and patient.; Diagnosis.; Decision Making.; Informed Consent.; Physician-Patient Relations -- ethics.; Physicians -- psychology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The role of consent in the relationship between physician and patient / Salvatore Pisu ... [et al.]; value: Decision-making and expert patients / Sally Lindsay; value: Women in a world of men's disease: the case of female cardiac patients / Michal Rassin; value: Cardiologist-patient communication about heart failure / Keri L. Rodriguez, Phyllis N. Butow and Robert M. Arnold; value: Clinical indication and shared decision making: theoretical considerations about patient-physician relationship / Klaus P.G. Gahl; value: Making decisions about managing medications in hospital / Elizabeth Manias; value: Decision-making in pediatric care / Inger Hallstrom; value: Pathways into substitute health care labor / Sally Lindsay; value: Structure of the association between patient and physician evaluations of the level of physician explanations / Akihito Hagihara, Kimio Tarumi and Minako Nishi; value: Decision making in the patient-physician relationship / Dennis J. Mazur and Marcus D. Mazur; value: Empowering cancer patients to make informed decisions / Robert J. Thomas and Madeleine Williams; value: Why are primary care physicians avoiding rationing decisions and what can be done about it? the case of Norway / Benedicte Carlsen.