Autonomy, religion and clinical decisions: findings from a national physician survey
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Autonomy, religion and clinical decisions: findings from a national physician survey.
BACKGROUND Patient autonomy has been promoted as the most important principle to guide difficult clinical decisions. To examine whether practising physicians indeed value patient autonomy above other considerations, physicians were asked to weight patient autonomy against three other criteria that often influence doctors' decisions. Associations between physicians' religious characteristics and...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0306-6800
DOI: 10.1136/jme.2008.027565