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Patient autonomy and the politics of professional relationships
Author(s) -
May Carl
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1995.21010083.x
Subject(s) - autonomy , politics , interpersonal communication , proxy (statistics) , nursing , interpersonal relationship , professional services , health care , psychology , quality (philosophy) , patient satisfaction , health professionals , patient care , social psychology , medicine , public relations , political science , law , philosophy , epistemology , machine learning , computer science
Debate in the health care professions about the politics of interpersonal relationships between professionals and their patients or clients is increasingly organized around proxy measures of the quality of professional services such as patient satisfaction, or the extent to which the provision of care avoids routines and is genuinely individualized This paper explores some of the problems which arise from this in relation to patients' autonomy and nurses' authority