Conspiracy theories and clinical decision‐making.

When a patient's treatment decisions are the product of delusion, this is often taken as a paradigmatic case of undermined decisional capacity. That is to say, when a patient refuses treatment on the basis of beliefs that in no way reflect reality, clinicians and ethicists tend to agree that their r...

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Published in:	Bioethics Vol. 37; no. 5; pp. 470 - 478
Main Author:	Stout, Nathan
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Jun2023
Subjects:	Social theory Psychology Attitudes toward illness Health attitudes Bioethics Antibiotics Patient refusal of treatment Delusions Hospital emergency services COVID-19 Patient decision making Capacity (Law) Conceptual structures Infection Theory Decision making in clinical medicine Wound care
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