Framing Effects Do Not Undermine Consent

Suppose that a patient is receiving treatment options from her doctor. In one case, the doctor says, "the surgery has a 90% survival rate." Now, suppose the doctor instead said, "the procedure has a 10% mortality rate." Predictably, the patient is more likely to consent on the fi...

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Главный автор: Director, Samuel (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: 2024
В: Ethical theory and moral practice
Год: 2024, Том: 27, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 221-235
Индексация IxTheo:NCH Медицинская этика
NCJ Научная этика
VA Философия
ZA Общественные науки
ZD Психология
Другие ключевые слова:B Framing Effects
B Consent
B Nudging
B Trust
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Итог:Suppose that a patient is receiving treatment options from her doctor. In one case, the doctor says, "the surgery has a 90% survival rate." Now, suppose the doctor instead said, "the procedure has a 10% mortality rate." Predictably, the patient is more likely to consent on the first description and more likely to dissent on the second. This is an example of a framing effect. A framing effect occurs when "the description of [logically-equivalent] options in terms of gains (positive frame) rather than losses (negative frame) elicits systematically different choices." Framing effects are ubiquitous, but they are particularly troublesome in medicine. Many worry that there is tension between valuing informed consent and using framing effects in clinical settings. In this paper, I answer this question: if an individual is subject to a framing effect when she gives her consent, does this undermine the validity of her consent? I argue that framing effects do not undermine consent in general.
ISSN:1572-8447
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10677-023-10412-1