Consultations not Informed by Mutual Trust

Learning Mutual Trust

ABSTRACT Multiagent learning literature has looked at iterated twoplayer games to develop me hanisms that allow agents to learn to onverge on Nash Equilibrium strategy pro les. Su h equilibrium on guration implies that there is no motivation for one player to hange its strategy if the other does not. Often, in general sum games, a higher payo an be obtained by both players if one hooses not to ...

Elective neurosurgical office consultations: how well are patients informed?

A prospective study was performed on elective neurosurgical office referrals to one neurosurgeon at the Toronto Hospital from September 1988 to May 1996. Patient level of information was tested using the chisquare test on the study population of 2,017 patients grouped according to the type of referring doctor and regional category of diagnosis. There was a statistically significant difference i...

Masked Or Informed Citizens? Social Media And Online Health Consultations

The diffusion of social media is having profound impacts on the relationship between government and citizens in many areas of government service provision. In the area of healthcare the emergence of new venues of interaction between patients and between patients and doctors is challenging the government-established digital channels for healthcare service provision. In this paper we present a cl...

Using informed consent to save trust.

Increasingly, bioethicists defend informed consent as a safeguard for trust in caretakers and medical institutions.This paper discusses an ‘ideal type’ of that move. What I call the trust-promotion argument for informed consent states:1. Social trust, especially trust in caretakers and medical institutions, is necessary so that, for example,people seek medical advice, comply with it, and partic...

Consultations do not have to be longer.