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Reconciling the principle of patient autonomy with the practice of informed consent: decision-making about prognostication in uveal melanoma.
Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy - 1 Dec 2011
Cook Sharon A, Damato Bertil, Marshall Ernie, Salmon Peter
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BACKGROUND: Influential views on how to protect patient autonomy in clinical care have been greatly shaped by rational and deliberative models of decision-making. OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to understand how the general principle of respecting autonomy can be reconciled with the local reality of obtaining consent in a clinical situation that precludes extended deliberation. METHOD: We interviewed 22 patients with...
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