title: [Decision making and informed consent in clinical medicine].
abstract: Information used in clinical medicine is always uncertain and every choice has risk of unfavorable outcome. The concept of informed consent includes full access and understanding of all relevant information by the patient with autonomic participation to the decision process. In this paper, possible cause of the lack of communication between physicians and patients is discussed along with the usefulness of decision science technology in clinical medicine.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Computer Center, University of Tokyo Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sakurai
mesh_terms: D015510:Clinical Medicine; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D010358:Patient Participation; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012306:Risk