Choice Behavior - Ethics
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Primigravid women's views of being approached to participate in a hypothetical term cephalic trial of planned vaginal birth versus planned cesarean birth.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Several papers have called for a trial of planned cesarean section versus planned vaginal birth for low-risk women-a recommendation that is fiercely debated. Although proponents of a trial have voiced their support, evidence suggests ... Read more...

Stopping eating and drinking.

30 Aug 2009 Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking, in which death occurs within one to three weeks of beginning the fast, is increasingly explored in the literature and mainstream media as an option to be discussed with "decisionally capable," suffering ... Read more...

Shared decision-making and patient autonomy.

20 Aug 2009 In patient-centred care, shared decision-making is advocated as the preferred form of medical decision-making. Shared decision-making is supported with reference to patient autonomy without abandoning the patient or giving up the possibility of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Choice Behavior - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Primigravid women's views of being approached to participate in a hypothetical term cephalic trial of planned vaginal birth versus planned cesarean birth. 30 Aug 2009
• Stopping eating and drinking. 30 Aug 2009
• Shared decision-making and patient autonomy. 20 Aug 2009
• The moral obligation to create children with the best chance of the best life. 30 May 2009
• Leadership and ethics in nurse-nurse relationships. 30 Mar 2009
• A Jewish perspective on the refusal of life-sustaining therapies: culture as shaping bioethical discourse. 30 Mar 2009
• The straight route to withholding hand-feeding and hydration. 30 Mar 2009
• The "window of opportunity:" helping parents make the most difficult decision they will ever face using an informed non-dissent model. 30 Mar 2009
• End-of-life treatment decisions: the opportunity to care. 30 Mar 2009
• Unnecessary time pressure in refusal of life-sustaining therapies: fear of missing the opportunity to die. 30 Mar 2009
• Response to open peer commentaries for "Unnecessary time pressure in refusal of life-sustaining therapies". 30 Mar 2009
• Response to open peer commentaries for "Ethical considerations of providing screening tests to individuals when evidence is insufficient to support screening populations". 30 Mar 2009
• Reflections: neurology and the humanities. You had the choice, Martha. 22 Mar 2009
• Ethics consultation and "facilitated" consensus. 30 Dec 2008
• Transparency in nursing leadership: a chosen ethic. 30 Dec 2008
• Challenging the rhetoric of choice in prenatal screening. 30 Dec 2008
• Rich discussion about reproductive autonomy. 30 Dec 2008
• Dominions of surrogate opinions: who is in charge? 30 Dec 2008
• The role of moral utility in decision making: an interdisciplinary framework. 29 Nov 2008
• Race, science and a novel: an interdisciplinary dialogue. 29 Nov 2008

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Technical information about 'Choice Behavior'

Definition: The act of making a selection among two or more alternatives, usually after a period of deliberation.

Descriptor UI: D002755

Alternative terms: Choice Behavior; Behavior, Choice; Behaviors, Choice; Choice Behaviors;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.785.373.346;

Online Note: search DECISION MAKING 1974

History Note: 79(75); was see under DECISION MAKING 1974-78