The Conflicts of Ethics and Law on Patient's Surrogate

Health Service Administration China Medical University (Chih-Jaan Tai)

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01267890

Enrollment

120

Registered

2010-12-29

Start date

2010-12-31

Completion date

2011-07-31

Last updated

2010-12-29

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Conditions

Physician's Role

Keywords

ethics, law, surrogate, conflict

Brief summary

This study is a prospective cross-sectional survey study. The investigators developed self-administrated questionnaire and recruit 120 physicians in two hospitals and 60 lawyers from some law firms to this study. To realize and compare the opinions of physicians and lawyers about controversial decision-making of surrogate.

Detailed description

This study provides three real scenarios regarding dilemma between ethics and law when patient's surrogate may not represent patient's best interest：1. Parents ask physician resect their mentally handicapped daughter's uterus. 2. A son refuse physician's suggestion of surgical treatment for his mother, instead, wishes donating his mother's kidney to his son. 3. A mother decides to give up treatment for her son's head injury because of his rebel behavior before. T-test, ANOVA and Logistic Regression will be used to analyze in this study.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_ONLY

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* resident * visiting Staff * chief resident

Exclusion criteria

* intern * clerk

Countries

Taiwan

Contacts

Primary ContactChih-Jaan Tai, Associate Professor

cjtai@mail.cmu.edu.tw04-22053366

Outcome results