title: ACOG Committee Opinion. Surgery and patient choice: the ethics of decision making.
abstract: The purpose of this Committee Opinion is to provide the obstetrician-gynecologist with an approach to decision making based on ethics in an environment of increased patient information, recognition of patient autonomy, direct-to-consumer marketing, and many alternative or investigational treatments. A process for ethical decision making in surgery is discussed, illustrated by an example of elective cesarean delivery.
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making / Q000941:ethics*; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D005260:Female; D005831:Genital Diseases, Female / Q000601:surgery*; D013509:Gynecologic Surgical Procedures / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D013513:Obstetric Surgical Procedures / Q000941:ethics*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000601:surgery*; D014481:United States