AMA Journal of Ethics

Long-acting injectables powerfully augment HIV care, but broad acceptance and uptake could be compromised by what we know about experiences with antipsychotics.

Restraint can facilitate freedom for patients with traumatic brain injuries under some conditions.

Ethical dimensions of risk management are illuminated in AMA Code content on discharge planning.

Shared decision making is practically difficult to implement in mental health practice but remains an ethical ideal for motivating therapeutic capacity.

Shared decision making is complex with patients who are adolescents, whose relational autonomy is still emerging.

Dr Laura Guidry-Grimes helps us consider whether and which decisions can be shared with people experiencing mental illnesses.

Despite challenges of decision making for unrepresented patients, few laws or policy statements offer solutions. This article offers 5 key things to do.

A deliberative approach to responding to needs and vulnerabilities of unrepresented patients can help make the most of having too little information.