When the end of life makes its inevitable appearance, people should be able to expect
reliable, humane, and effective caregiving. Yet too many dying people suffer unnecessarily …

An instrument for measuring patients' preferences for two identified dimensions of autonomy,
their desire to make medical decisions and their desire to be informed, was developed and …

Clinicians are regularly faced with decisions regarding disclosure of information to cancer
patients. Many of these decisions constitute a dilemma between the physician's paternalistic …

Thousands of articles on “noncompliance” have appeared since 1975. Yet the term has
been criticized as paternalistic—as wrongly implying that patients should necessarily follow …

A questionnaire was sent to the 590 members of the European Society of Intensive Care
Medicine to define both the current practices and the opinions of these specialists on various …

Background Given the initiatives of the National Institutes of Health and other agencies to
include children in research, it is important to understand the factors that influence their …

Considerable attention is now being given to ethical conflicts raised by such issues as the
disclosure of diagnosis and prognosis, the role of the family in making medical decisions …

In this text an overview of the literature in patients' autonomy, privacy and informed consent
has been made. This is important for many groups, and patients' rights were emphasized …

" The updated Third Edition of Geriatrics and the Law by the leading scholar in law and old
age belongs on the desk of every hospital and long-term care administrator, Director of …

Sexual problems have long been considered part of medical practice. Sigmund Freud's
work, 1 in the early part of this century, set the course that led psychiatry, and then medicine …