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The Impact of Internet Health Information on Patient Compliance: A Research Model and an Empirical Study
Patients are increasingly seeking and using online health information to more actively manage their own health in collaboration with their doctors. This trend has both positive and negative effects on interactions between patients and their doctors....
Mental health professionals' experiences with shared decision-making for patients with psychotic disorders: a qualitative study
Shared decision-making (SDM) is a process where clinicians and patients work together to select treatment based on both patient preference and clinical evidence. Although patients with psychotic disorders want a greater degree of...
Are physicians' attitudes of respect accurately perceived by patients and associated with more positive communication behaviours?
The aim of the article was to explore the respect reported by doctors for individual patients by examining the following questions: How does the respect for patients reported by doctors change? What patient characteristics are associated with greater respect reported by...
Physicians' communication and perceptions of patients: is it how they look, how they talk, or is it just the doctor?
Although doctors' communication styles and perceptions influence outcomes, few studies have examined how these perceptions relate to the way doctors communicate with patients. Furthermore, although many factors may influence the communication process, in...
Clinical decision-making: Patients' preferences and experiences
The aim of this article was to determine the congruence between patients' preferred style of clinical decision-making and the style they typically experienced, and whether this congruence was related to socioeconomic status and/or perceived quality of care....
Do patients wish to be involved in decision making in the consultation? A cross sectional survey with video vignettes
The aim of this article was to determine patients' preferences for a shared or focused consultation style in the decision-making part of a general consultation. Patients had different preferences for participation in decision-making during the consultation. In a multiple regression analysis, it was found that...
Neuroethics
Sex differences and neuroethics
Previous discussions in the field of neuroethics have ignored the ever-growing neuroscientific interpretation of sex differences in brains. If there are indeed significant differences in the brains of men and women, and in the brains of boys and girls, the ethical and...
It Is Time to Expand the Scope and Reach of Neuroethics
Indeed, there is a growing need for neuroethics and neuroscience to work together to better identify and analyse the ethical issues that arise in brain research. Equally important, however, is their collaboration in providing the necessary conceptual...
Of Meatballs, Autonomy, and Human Dignity: Neuroethics and the Boundaries of Decision Making Among Persons with Dementia
Autonomy is considered a fundamental principle of the doctor-patient relationship: in general, people have the right to be treated according to their informed preferences and wishes. However, there are situations related to cognitive disorders where it is no longer clear whether the patient...
The New Ethics of Neuroethics
According to a well-known distinction, neuroethics includes the neuroscience of ethics and the ethics of neuroscience. In neuroethics, these two parts have given rise to separate lines of enquiry, and there has been no discussion of how the two parts overlap. In this article, the author attempts to relate ...
Neuroethics and Philosophy in Responsible Research and Innovation: The Case of the Human Brain Project
Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is an important ethical, legal and policy theme of the European Commission. Although it is variously defined, it is generally understood as an interactive process that involves researchers and innovators having to respond to each other's...
The Need for a Conceptual Expansion of Neuroethics
In Neuroethics at 15: The Current and Future Environment for Neuroethics, the Emerging Issues Task Force provides an overview of current and future neuroethics topics and foreseeable challenges facing the field. The authors note,...
Patients' rights
Analysis of legal and social aspects of e-prescription functioning in Poland against the background of selected countries
The development and dissemination of modern information and communication technologies (ICT) are influencing the functioning of many areas of life, including such an important one as the health sector. Electronic medical records, e-prescriptions or online medical consultations are...
"VIRTUAL HEALTH ADVISOR", DIETARY SUPPLEMENT, ADVERTISING AND AUDIENCE - THE LANGUAGE OF ONLINE HEALTH PROMOTION PORTALS
This article focuses on the language of health promotion portals, including the language of advertisements related to health-promoting products that are posted on selected online portals. The communicative aspect of the discussion, that is, the perspective of the virtual counsellor ...
Telemedicine in Poland - legal, medical and ethical aspects
Telemedicine, as a form of healthcare delivery, undoubtedly facilitates physician-patient contact, but it also carries certain risks due to the lack of an in-person physical examination. This article aims to present the long-standing legal standards ...
Advances in telepsychiatry linked to COVID-19 pandemic status
This article presents the COVID-19 pandemic-induced progress, limitations and potential challenges in the field of telepsychiatry globally and in Poland. As a collective societal experience, the pandemic has led to numerous negative consequences, but at the same time has contributed ...
Specificity of e-patient behaviour on the Internet,
Patient behaviour has changed over the last decade or so. First and foremost, they concern the way they access and use health services. The Internet allows patients to make the most advantageous choices from their point of view, not only of health services,...
E-services in health care as a new dimension of medicine - types of services and security of medical data
The e-health market is a steadily growing segment of medicine. In the era of technologisation and computerisation of service processes, the application of ICT applications in the medical sector will allow a significant improvement in the quality and efficiency of the services offered, a reduction in the cost...