Autonomy is one of the pillars of bioethics, and it is the notion that the patient has the ultimate decision-making power. There is no denying that a patient's decision-making responsibility is ...

Insurance exchanges encourage patient autonomy Too often, patients rely on the provider to 'fix them,' signifying an unwillingness to be participants in their own care. The recently launched Health ...

Even as we spend more on healthcare every year, the number of people with chronic health problems continues to rise in developed countries like the United States. Most of these chronic health problems ...

Joyce O'Shaughnessy, MD, reflects on the important principle of patient autonomy and how, as a younger clinician, she encountered a patient with breast cancer who refused early intervention with ...

A new patient-reported outcomes tool is helping to shift the way end-of-life and depression-related conversations are occurring between patients with multiple myeloma and their health care teams. A ...

May is the month most American medical students finally see four years of grueling work bear fruit. Most U.S. medical schools hold commencement exercises in May, conferring "doctor of medicine" ...

VIENTIANE: Public hospitals in Laos are working to achieve autonomy in a bid to improve service standards, reduce the number of people paying for medical services in other countries, and encourage VIP ...

The major criticism brought against the recommendations is that they unacceptably override patients’ consent, and hence their autonomy, which is the chief value protected by informed consent ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among high-risk patients, discussion of do-not-resuscitate orders should take place prior to hospitalization, as ...

Two pillars in health care are the principles of patient autonomy and informed consent, otherwise known as the right to choose or reject treatment. These ethical principles are in place when a patient ...

The President of the National Health Insurance House, Horaţiu-Remus Moldovan, states that the true reform of the healthcare system does not consist in abolishing the current model, but in granting ...