Ms. Landro is an assistant managing editor for The Wall Street Journal and writes the paper's Informed Patient column.
The key is that decisions be based upon discussions that weigh the quantity vs. the quality of life reflect informed patient preferences.
Ms. Landro writes The Informed Patient column for the Journal.
In one case, it is not clear if authorities even informed a patient's relatives about his condition after the virus was discovered.
We must hold our health care system accountable to the goal that medical decisions should reflect patient informed goals and values.
The key to preserving the dignity and autonomy of the patient is informed consent.
Changing the cause of death without the patient's informed consent, is unethical, they argue.
Informed consent case law dictates that if the patient does not suffer the injury that the surgeon failed to warn of, proximate cause between injury and failure to warn cannot be established.
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Mr Brough said a patient would have to be fully informed of the risk they were taking in having an operation - particularly since the condition being treated was not in itself life-threatening.
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Medical ethics have shifted away from paternalism in favor of patient autonomy, the core of which is informed consent.
It also found he failed to provide the patient with oxygen, and that he falsely informed the air support paramedics that he was unable to obtain a radial pulse when he never attempted to do so.
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Partridge says there have been several new reconstructive breast therapies developed over the past several years, and though she agrees patients should be informed of them, she says in some cases if the patient doesn't bring it up, the oncologist may wait to have this discussion, especially when radiation treatment is needed.
With the popularity of iPads among doctors, another low-hanger is giving doctors and nurses access to patient data via tablet so that they can do more-informed, faster diagnoses.
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Some of the nursing staff were not informed that Mrs Astbury was diabetic and some said they were too busy to check the patient notes at the foot of her bed, the inquest heard.
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