title: New Jersey's 15-year experiment in altered physician-patient relations.
abstract: New Jersey has served as a "social laboratory" by initiating innovations affecting physician-patient relations. Some of these changes include use of ethics committees, influence of the Bioethics Commission, and government review of nursing home decision making.
authors.affiliation: American College of Physicians, Westwood, NJ.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Nevins
mesh_terms: D017041:Ethics Committees / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D009515:New Jersey; D009735:Nursing Homes; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012297:Right to Die / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence