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How decision science can help with gut-wrenching medical choices

Patient decision aids might help with routine health choices. The science of decision-making also can help navigate ethically complex choices.

Ethics
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Pediatric decision-making: Help parents protect, empower kids

While bearing the weighty responsibility of making medical decisions for children when they lack capacity, parents can also promote patient autonomy.

Ethics
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Errors happen. What to do when there's no one to whom to say "I'm sorry.”

The absence of a surrogate does not obviate a physician’s responsibility to address mistakes. Know these three key steps.

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Doctors battle state law that forces them to mislead patients

Two North Dakota legal provisions turn physicians into mouthpieces for politically motivated messages that could harm patients. The AMA is suing to overturn them.

Patient Support & Advocacy
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Code of Medical Ethics: Consent, communication & decision making

Help your patients make well-considered decisions about their care and treatment by reading up on medical ethics of consent.

Ethics
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Many ICU talks with family fall short on shared decision-making

26% of physician conversations lack deliberation about the patients’ values, preferences. A physician expert recommends ways to improve.

Patient Support & Advocacy
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Ruling on Kentucky law undermines patient-physician relationship

U.S. appellate court upholds Kentucky law requiring women to view ultrasound before abortion, contradicts earlier ruling on North Carolina’s similar law.

Patient Support & Advocacy
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7 complex words you shouldn’t include on your consent form

A study finds that less than 10% of cancer treatment consent forms meet the National Cancer Institute’s readability recommendation. The forms also commonly include these hard-to-understand words.

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When patients get overwhelmed, informed consent needs rethinking

Sometimes patients cannot realistically provide informed consent. In those situations, physicians have a higher obligation: protecting them from being overwhelmed.

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