The Potential Role of Individual-Level Benefit-Risk Assessment in Treatment Decision Making: A DIA Study Endpoints Community Workstream

This article examines the part that healthcare interpreters play in cross-cultural medical ethics, and it argues that there are instances when the interpreter needs to assume an interventionist role. However, the interpreter cannot take on this role without developing expertise in the tendencies that distinguish general communication from culture to culture, in the ethical principles that govern medical communication in different communities, and in the development of professional relationships in healthcare. The article describes each of these three variables with reference to a case scenario, and it outlines a number of interventionist strategies that could be potentially open to the interpreter. It concludes with a note about the importance of the three variables for community interpreter training. Keywords: community interpreting, informed consent, role of the interpreter, healthcare.

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Treatment decision‐making during the early stages of heart attack: a case for the role of body and self in influencing delays

Sociology of Health & Illness ◽

10.1111/1467-9566.00259 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 425-446 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Alexander M. Clark

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Heart Attack ◽

Treatment Decision ◽

Treatment Decision Making ◽

Early Stages

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Treatment decision-making in cancer care: the role of the carer

Journal of Clinical Nursing ◽

10.1111/j.1365-2702.2009.03062.x ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 19 (13-14) ◽

pp. 2023-2031 ◽

Cited By ~ 37

Author(s):

Gill Hubbard ◽

Nicola Illingworth ◽

Neneh Rowa-Dewar ◽

Liz Forbat ◽

Nora Kearney

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Cancer Care ◽

Treatment Decision ◽

Treatment Decision Making

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The role of patients’ families in treatment decision-making among adult cancer patients in the Sultanate of Oman

European Journal of Cancer Care ◽

10.1111/ecc.12845 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. e12845 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

A. Al-Bahri ◽

M. Al-Moundhri ◽

Z. Al-Mandhari ◽

M. Al-Azri

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Cancer Patients ◽

Treatment Decision ◽

Sultanate Of Oman ◽

Treatment Decision Making

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Shared decision-making, decision aids, and the role of values in treatment decision-making

10.1093/med/9780198736134.003.0004 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Amiram Gafni ◽

Cathy Charles

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Shared Decision Making ◽

Conceptual Development ◽

Decision Aids ◽

Treatment Decision ◽

Clinical Encounter ◽

Shared Decision ◽

Treatment Decision Making ◽

Key Characteristics

Shared decision-making (SDM) between physicians and patients is often advocated as the ‘best’ approach to treatment decision-making in the clinical encounter. In this chapter we describe: (i) the key characteristics of a SDM approach; (ii) the clinical contexts for SDM; (iii) the definition and use of decision aids (DA), as well as their relationship to SDM; and (iv) the vexing problem of defining the meaning and role of values/preferences in treatment decision-making. Areas for further research and conceptual development are also suggested to help resolve outstanding issues in the above areas. Despite the widespread interest in promoting SDM, there does not seem to be as yet a universally accepted consensus on the meaning of this concept.

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