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Advance Directives for Truth Disclosure
Chest, 2005Although most patients wish to be fully informed about bad news such as a diagnosis of cancer, a significant minority prefer no or minimal information. We examined the value of asking patients about their disclosure preferences at the outset of hospitalization.Consecutive patients admitted to a respiratory and a geriatric unit were asked whether and ...
Dominic T, Keating +3 more
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Cancer truth disclosure by Lebanese doctors
Social Science & Medicine, 1998Truthful disclosure of cancer diagnosis is still uncommon in some cultures. In Lebanon, legislation is permissive of non-disclosure. Physicians choose the recourse most agreeable to them. This study's goal was to determine the proportion of Lebanese physicians who choose truthful diagnosis disclosure to cancer patients and to identify factors affecting
G N, Hamadeh, S M, Adib
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Truth Disclosure Practices of Physicians in Jordan
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2018Disclosure of health information is a sensitive matter, particularly in the context of serious illness. In conservative societies-those which predominate in the developing world-direct truth disclosure undoubtedly presents an ethical conundrum to the modern physician.
Saif M, Borgan +4 more
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Japanese Attitudes towards Truth Disclosure in Cancer
Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine, 1994Despite the increasing concerns of truth disclosure, most cancer patients are not told the truth about their disease in Japan. The author has tried to provide some insight into this issue by evaluating results from questionnaires given to hospital patients, clients in a mass cancer survey, and doctors of a college hospital.
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Truth and lies: Disclosure and the power of diagnosis
Social Science & Medicine, 2016The moment at which a diagnosis is delivered to a patient, particularly when it is serious, is an important social moment. It not only dictates the clinical pathway, it also rewrites the patient narrative, shifts their identity, predicts potential outcomes, and foregrounds mortality. It may provide a sense of relief, or one of despair.
Annemarie Jutel
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Does the rule for voluntary disclosure induce truthful disclosure?
Applied Financial Economics Letters, 2008This article demonstrates how Rule 10b-5 of the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act fails to induce voluntary disclosure. We show that company owners may deter the disclosure policy for their financing decisions. While there is a link between the way in which firms raise external capital and the information which their firms disclose, we show that the ...
Chen-Wen Chen, Victor W. Liu
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Truthful Disclosure of Information
The Bell Journal of Economics, 1982This article is about disclosure of quality. The question that it seeks to answer is: Does the free market offer enough incentive for business to disclose? The article concludes that whether information is of purely private value or not, more than the socially-optimal amount of disclosure takes place.
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Imprecise information disclosure and truthful certification
European Economic Review, 2016Abstract This article studies the interaction of information disclosure and reputational concerns in certification markets. We argue that by revealing information less precisely, a certifier reduces the threat of capture because this reduces her gains from selling fraudulent certificates. As a result, only imprecise disclosure rules are implementable
Martin Pollrich, Lilo Wagner
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A Critique of Hermeneutic Truth as Disclosure
International Studies in Philosophy, 2001Etude de la conception heideggerienne de la revelation utilisee par Gadamer dans sa definition de la verite hermeneutique. Examinant l'essence de la verite dans «Etre et temps» et dans les ecrits ulterieurs de Heidegger, l'A. montre que la metaphore du jeu etablit chez Gadamer un lien entre la verite et l'interpretation qui limite la sphere de l ...
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Managerial reporting discretion and the truthfulness of disclosures
Economics Letters, 1992Abstract In a single period agency model in which the agent has some discretion regarding how to report his performance, we provide conditions on the type of discretion and production technology under which reporting can be useful in contracting only if the agent is permitted to misstate his performance.
Arya, Anil +2 more
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