UNLABELLED Free and informed consent is generally acknowledged as the legal and ethical basis for living organ donation, but assessments of living donors are not always an easy matter. Sometimes it is necessary to involve psychosomatics or ethics consultation to evaluate a prospective donor to make certain that the requirements for a voluntary and autonomous decision are met. The paper focuses ...

OBJECTIVES Male partners are often involved in induced abortion although they have no legal rights. It is, however, unknown how women's thoughts and feelings regarding the decision for abortion are associated with the decisional experiences of the involved male partners and vice versa. METHODS Flemish women and their involved male partners (IMP) filled out a questionnaire on abortion motives ...

The standard notion of autonomy in medical ethics does not require that autonomous choices not be irrational. The paper gives three examples of seemingly irrational patient choices and discusses how a rational autonomy analysis differs from the standard view. It then considers whether a switch to the rational autonomy view would lead to overriding more patient decisions but concludes that this ...

A considerable amount of recent medical research focuses on factors involving patient satisfaction. This study attempts to examine the role of autonomy in the gynecologist-patient relationship as it relates to patient satisfaction. Fifty-five patients at a women's clinic completed measures assessing autonomy preference (API) before the medical visit and patient-perceived autonomy support (HCCQ)...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Increasingly, academic hospitals have adopted hospitalist-based systems of inpatient pediatric care. Some studies comparing hospitalists with other attending physicians have suggested trainees are more satisfied with education from hospitalists. However, there are published concerns that the increased presence of hospitalists may reduce residents' autonomy. The objectiv...

Clinical Decision Support (CDS) aims at helping physicians optimize their decisions. However, as each patient is unique in characteristics and preferences, it difficult to define the optimal outcome. Human should retain autonomy over decisions, ensure that tradeoffs are made a way fits patient. We tend consider sense of not influencing decision-making. CDS improve decision-making, its very aim ...