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Elbow room for best practice? Montgomery, patients' values, and balanced decision-making in person-centred clinical care.
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The UK Supreme Court Montgomery judgment marks a decisive shift in the legal test of duty of care in the context of consent to treatment, from the perspective of the clinician (as represented by Bolam rules) to that of the patient. A majority of commentators on Montgomery have focused on the implications of the judgment for disclosure of risk. In this paper we set risk disclosure in context with three further elements of the judgment, benefits, options, and dialogue. These elements, we argue,...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 651.6KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1093/medlaw/fwx029
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- Medical Law Review More from this journal
- Volume:
- 25
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 582–603
- Publication date:
- 2017-07-19
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-06-01
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1464-3790
- ISSN:
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0967-0742
- Pmid:
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28985348
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- Copyright holder:
- Herring et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press; all rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Oxford University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwx029
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