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01.09.2015 | Medicolegal Sidebar
Medicolegal Sidebar: Informed Consent in the Information Age
verfasst von:
B. Sonny Bal, MD, JD, MBA, Lawrence H. Brenner, JD
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 9/2015
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Excerpt
The process of informed consent is essential to building the doctor-patient relationship, and also to shared decision-making, whereby patients and doctors actively work together to formulate treatment decisions. Traditionally, physicians had nearly exclusive knowledge and understanding of disease, its course, and available treatments and associated risks. This is changing. Every physician now is an educator; transfer of relevant information empowers patients, facilitates shared decision-making, and supports the concept of truly informed consent. …