The Precautionary Principle and Medical Decision Making  

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Resnik, David B.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy vol. 29 no. 3 (Jun. 2004), page 281-299.
Topik: Cancer Screening Tests; Evidence-based Medicine; Expected Utility Theory; Medical Decision-making; Precautionary Principle; Probability
Fulltext: MM80V29N3P281.pdf (111.62KB)

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: MM80.14 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The precautionary principle is a useful strategy for decision-making when physicians and patients lack evidence relating to the potential outcomes associated with various choices. According to a version of the principle defended here, one should take reasonable measures to avoid threats that are serious and plausible. The reasonableness of a response to a threat depends on several factors, including benefit vs. harm, realism, proportionality, and consistency. Since a concept of reasonableness plays an essential role in applying the precautionary principle, this principle gives physicians and patients a decision-making strategy that encourages the careful weighing and balancing of different values that one finds in humanistic approaches to clinical reasoning. Properly understood, the principle presents a worthwhile alternative to approaches to clinical reasoning that apply expected utility theory to decision problems.

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