Patients Favor Doctors Who Disclose Potential Side Effects of Treatment
Patients are more likely to give medical staffs higher rankings when they have been informed of potential side effects of treatments, according to a new study adding that such disclosure is still surprisingly low in hospitalized settings.
As recently detailed in The Archives of Internal Medicine, nearly 2,300 medical and surgical acute care patients were randomly sampled in Massachusetts hospitals between April 1 and October 1, 2003, with 603 patients reporting approximately 845 adverse events, which refers to changes in health or side effects that occurred during or a
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