Informed consent and shared decision-making: a requirement to disclose to patients off-label prescriptions.
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Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 18998769.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050223 and PMC identifier 2581625.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
Michael Wilkes and Margaret Johns argue that the doctrine of informed consent should require doctors to disclose to patients when they are prescribing a drug off-label.
Medical subject headings
- Decision Making
- Disclosure
- Drug Prescriptions
- Informed Consent