Phosphate Binders Cut Mortality, Up ESRD Risk Autonomy support could be an appropriate target for culturally informed strategies to optimize mineral bone health. Dialysis patients who believe their ...

CARE-ACE supports autonomy through bounded agentic reasoning, in which diagnostic, prognostic, planning, and risk-assessment ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Sitting barely 6 feet away from me, my patient yelled angrily, his face mask slipping to his upper lip: “No, I will not get vaccinated. And nothing you do or say will change that ...

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 ...

Recent modifications in recommendations regarding incidental findings in genetic testing from the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics depart from the college’s 2013 recommendations in ...

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 ...

Last month, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law a bill lawmakers passed called “Deb’s Law” that enables terminally ill patients to request a prescription from their doctor to end their ...

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 ...

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" ...

Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 24, No. 6 (Dec., 1998), pp. 394-400 (7 pages) Background—Patient autonomy has gradually replaced physician paternalism as an ethical ideal. However, in a medical ...