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Empowerment Failure: How Shortcomings in Physician Communication Unwittingly Undermine Patient Autonomy

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Ubel, Peter A. Scherr, Karen Fagerlin, Angela
Copyright Year	2017
Description	Journal: American Journal of Bioethics Many health care decisions depend not only upon medical facts, but also on value judgments—patient goals and preferences. Until recent decades, patients relied on doctors to tell them what to do. Then ethicists and others convinced clinicians to adopt a paradigm shift in medical practice, to recognize patient autonomy, by orienting decision making toward the unique goals of individual patients. Unfortunately, current medical practice often falls short of empowering patients. In this article, we reflect on whether the current state of medical decision making effectively promotes patients' health care goals. We base our reflections, in part, on research in which we observed physicians making earnest efforts to partner with patients in making treatment decisions, but still struggling to empower patients—failing to communicate clearly to patients about decision-relevant information, overwhelming patients with irrelevant information, overlooking when patients' emotions made it hard to engage in choices, and making recommendations before discussing patients' goals.
Related Links	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6312722/pdf
Ending Page	39
Page Count	9
Starting Page	31
ISSN	15265161
e-ISSN	15360075
DOI	10.1080/15265161.2017.1378753
Journal	American Journal of Bioethics
Issue Number	11
Volume Number	17
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2017-11-02
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: American Journal of Bioethics Anesthesiology Informed Consent Physician/patient Communication Shared Decision Making
Content Type	Text
Subject	Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects Health Policy

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