"Informed choice" in a time of too much medicine-no panacea for ethical difficulties

Minna Johansson; Karsten Juhl Jørgensen; Linn Getz; Ray Moynihan

doi:10.1136/bmj.i2230

"Informed choice" in a time of too much medicine-no panacea for ethical difficulties

Minna Johansson^*, Karsten Juhl Jørgensen, Linn Getz, Ray Moynihan

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Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare

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Providing information to enable informed choices about healthcare sounds immediately appealing to most of us. But Minna Johansson and colleagues argue that preventive medicine and expanding disease definitions have changed the ethical premises of informed choice and our good intentions may inadvertently advance overmedicalisation.

Original language	English
Article number	i2230
Journal	British Medical Journal
Volume	353
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i2230
Publication status	Published - 9 May 2016

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