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: title: The role of consent in the relationship between physician and patient / Salvatore Pisu ... [et al.]; title: Decision-making and expert patients / Sally Lindsay; title: Women in a world of men's disease: the case of female cardiac patients / Michal Rassin; title: Cardiologist-patient communication about heart failure / Keri L. Rodriguez, Phyllis N. Butow and Robert M. Arnold; title: Clinical indication and shared decision making: theoretical considerations about patient-physician relationship / Klaus P.G. Gahl; title: Making decisions about managing medications in hospital / Elizabeth Manias; title: Decision-making in pediatric care / Inger Hallstrom; title: Pathways into substitute health care labor / Sally Lindsay; title: Structure of the association between patient and physician evaluations of the level of physician explanations / Akihito Hagihara, Kimio Tarumi and Minako Nishi; title: Decision making in the patient-physician relationship / Dennis J. Mazur and Marcus D. Mazur; title: Empowering cancer patients to make informed decisions / Robert J. Thomas and Madeleine Williams; title: Why are primary care physicians avoiding rationing decisions and what can be done about it? the case of Norway / Benedicte Carlsen.