Ethical aspects of risk communication

Shanmugaratnam, Shiva H. and Edwards, Adrian G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6228-4446 2016. Ethical aspects of risk communication. Medicine 44 (10) , pp. 607-610. 10.1016/j.mpmed.2016.07.005

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Abstract

Clinical decision-making is becoming increasingly complex because of greater patient access to information, more clinical options and the emphasis on patient-centred care with informed decision-making. Risk communication should form part of evidence-based clinical practice, and it is important to think about what happens when clinicians adopt different consultation approaches. In this article, the ethical consequences of risk communication are analysed by looking at how the paternalistic and shared decision-making models of consultation demonstrate different ethical implications, based around a clinical scenario. To do this, we have applied the ethical principles of autonomy, utility and justice to these models. We show that the different models of consultation place varying degrees of emphasis on risk communication, patient autonomy and biomedical utility. This has implications for the way care is delivered both for the individual patient and for the population as a whole.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Biomedical ethics; paternalism; patient-centred care; personal autonomy; risk assessment; utilitarianism
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	1357-3039
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	6 September 2017
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2024 14:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/99489

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