Paternalism in practice: informing patients about expensive unsubsidised drugs

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Paternalism in practice: informing patients about expensive unsubsidised drugs

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Recent research conducted in Australia shows that many oncologists withhold information about expensive unfunded drugs in what the authors of the study suggest is unacceptable medical paternalism. Surprised by the Australian results, we ran a version of the study in New Zealand and received very different results. While the percentages of clinicians who would prescribe the drugs described in the scenarios were very similar (73-99% in New Zealand and 72-94% in Australia depending on the scenar...

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Journal article

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2010-05-01

Creator

Dare, Tim / Findlay, Michael / Browett, Peter / Amies, Karen / Anderson, Sarah

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http://hdl.handle.net/2292/16234

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Social Sciences / Science & Technology / Life Sciences & Biomedicine / Ethics / Medical Ethics / Social Issues / Social Sciences, Biomedical / Social Sciences - Other Topics / Biomedical Social Sciences

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