Volpe Rebecca L
Saint Louis University's Center for Health Care Ethics, USA.
J Clin Ethics. 2010 Spring;21(1):45-57.
Informed consent is the practical application of the principle of autonomy, and two of the five core features of informed consent are related to information. Researchers have reported on patients' expressed needs for information, such as their stated desires for the quantity of and the source of information. A separate body of research has examined patients' unexpressed needs for information from the perspective of cognitive psychology, such as the emotional tone and order of information. This article suggests that the autonomy of patients is best served by meeting their expressed and unexpressed information needs for in tandem.
知情同意是自主性原则的实际应用，而知情同意的五个核心特征中有两个与信息相关。研究人员报告了患者表达的信息需求，比如他们对信息数量和信息来源的明确愿望。另一项研究从认知心理学的角度审视了患者未表达的信息需求，比如信息的情感基调及顺序。本文认为，同时满足患者已表达的和未表达的信息需求，最有利于维护患者的自主性。
