| Informed consent as an ethical issue in modern optometry. | |
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PMID: 8071506 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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BACKGROUND: Modern optometric practice contains many more mildly invasive procedures than it has traditionally. Concurrently, patients expect a more active role in decisions concerning their own health care, as, increasingly, these decisions may have harmful, as well as, salubrious, consequences. METHODS: Literature from the philosophy of ethics as it pertains to the issue of informed consent was examined and applied to optometric procedures and practices. RESULTS: A strong analogy exists between particular aspects of optometric practice and corresponding elements of medical practice with respect to well established ethical principles of informed consent. The legal doctrine of informed consent is not the only view applicable to optometry. CONCLUSION: Modern optometric practice may easily and advantageously be adapted to incorporate ethical principles of informed consent. These principles, which should be distinguished from legal principles which bear upon the same issues, may enhance the quality of health-care decisions by optometrists without creating serious obstacles to the individual optometrist's practice mode. |
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Authors:
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P Abplanalp |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Review |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Journal of the American Optometric Association Volume: 65 ISSN: 0003-0244 ISO Abbreviation: J Am Optom Assoc Publication Date: 1994 May |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 1994-09-29 Completed Date: 1994-09-29 Revised Date: 2005-11-16 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 7505575 Medline TA: J Am Optom Assoc Country: UNITED STATES |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 347-54 Citation Subset: E; IM |
Affiliation:
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Illinois College of Optometry, Chicago 60616. |
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Ethics, Medical* Humans Informed Consent* Malpractice Optometry / legislation & jurisprudence* United States |
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