TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Contextual Features A1 - Jonsen, Albert R. A1 - Siegler, Mark A1 - Winslade, William J. PY - 2015 T2 - Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, 8e AB - This topic contains items that are not usually part of a clinical workup. They are, however, essential to the description and resolution of a case in clinical ethics. Contextual features address the ways in which professional, family, religious, financial, legal, and institutional factors influence clinical decisions. These factors are the context in which the clinical case occurs. Although clinical ethics focuses on the medical indications, patient preferences, and quality of life in a particular case of patient care, medical decisions are not simply individual choices by two autonomous agents (the physician and the patient), but choices that are influenced and constrained by the context in which they take place. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/11/06 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1112266680 ER -