Family roles in informed consent from the perspective of young Chinese doctors: a questionnaire study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Based on the principle of informed consent, doctors are required to fully inform patients and respect their medical decisions. In China, however, family members usually play a special role in the patient's informed consent, which creates a unique "doctor-family-patient" model of the physician-patient relationship. Our study targets young doctors to investigate the ethical dilemmas they may encounter in such a model, as well as their attitudes to the family roles in informed consent.

Methods

A questionnaire was developed including general demographic characteristics, the fulfillment of the obligation to fully inform, who will be informed, and the ethical dilemmas in decision-making. We recruited a total of 421 doctors to complete this questionnaire, of which 368 me

SUBMITTER: Xu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10765650 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature