Supporting, Promoting, Respecting and Advocating: A Scoping Study of Rehabilitation Professionals’ Responses to Patient Autonomy

Background: Autonomy is a central concept in both bioethics and rehabilitation. Bioethics has emphasized autonomy as self-governance and its application in treatment decision-making. In addition to discussing decisional autonomy, rehabilitation also focuses on autonomy as functional independence. I...

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Main Authors: Emilie Blackburn, Evelyne Durocher, Debbie Feldman, Anne Hudon, Maude Laliberté, Barbara Mazer, Matthew Hunt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Programmes de bioéthique, École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal 2018-12-01
Series:Canadian Journal of Bioethics
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Online Access:https://cjb-rcb.ca/index.php/cjb-rcb/article/view/67