Manipulating Behavior: Defining the Ethical Limits of Behavioral Contracting in the Healthcare Setting
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- abstract
- Healthcare providers occasionally implement contracts with their patients in order to encourage certain behavioral patterns. These contracts lay out a set of required or prohibited behaviors to which the patient then agrees to adhere. For example, pain management physicians who regularly utilize opioids to alleviate chronic pain might draw up a contract that dictates strict dosing guidelines and other requirements. The patient agrees to adhere to the requirements while knowing that non-adherence might result in a termination of therapy.
- subject
- Behavior Contracting
- Behavior Contracts
- Clinical Ethics
- Hateful Patients
- Medical Ethics
- Psychotherapy
- contributor
- King, Nancy P (committee chair)
- Davis, Arlene M (committee member)
- McConnell, Terrance C (committee member)
- date
- 2016-01-11T09:35:24Z (accessioned)
- 2018-01-10T09:30:10Z (available)
- 2015 (issued)
- degree
- Bioethics (discipline)
- embargo
- 2018-01-10 (terms)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/57433 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- title
- Manipulating Behavior: Defining the Ethical Limits of Behavioral Contracting in the Healthcare Setting
- type
- Thesis