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ReviewJournal of medical ethics1998

The scope for the involvement of patients in their consultations with health professionals: rights, responsibilities and preferences of patients.

S Buetow

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Review in Journal of medical ethics, 1998. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Premature consent and patient duties.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2021
    Article
  2. Clinical ethics and patient advocacy: the power of communication in health care.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2014
    Article
  3. Do patients have duties?Journal of medical ethics · 2007
    Article
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  6. Power issues in the doctor-patient relationship.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2001
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

S BuetowUniversity of Manchester, England.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The degree and nature of patient involvement in consultations with health professionals influences problem and needs recognition and management, and public accountability. This paper suggests a framework for understanding the scope for patient involvement in such consultations. Patients are defined as co-producers of formal health services, whose potential for involvement in consultations depends on their personal rights, responsibilities and preferences. Patients' rights in consultations are poorly defined and, in the National Health Service (NHS), not legally enforceable. The responsibilities of patients are also undefined. I suggest that these are not to deny, of their own volition, the rights of others, which in consultations necessitate mutuality of involvement through information-exchange and shared decision-making. Preferences should be met insofar as they do not militate against responsibilities and rights.

Indexed as

Moral ObligationsPatient AdvocacyPatient ParticipationPatient RightsPhysician-Patient RelationsSocial ResponsibilityChoice BehaviorEthics, MedicalHumansPatient SelectionReferral and ConsultationSocial JusticeUnited KingdomHealth Care and Public HealthNational Health ServicePatient's Charter (Great Britain)Professional Patient Relationship

Identifiers

PMID9752626
PMCPMC1377673

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