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Managed Care and Informed Consent
- Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 7, Number 4, December 1997
- pp. 377-379
- 10.1353/ken.1997.0032
- Article
- Additional Information
Arguments for efficiency in health care delivery have been used to support some level of withholding of information about available treatment options from patients in managed care systems. To the extent that such arguments prevail, they may necessitate changes in the established understanding of and commitment to informed consent and the disclosure of information to patients.