Risk managers can help patient-subjects and clinician-researchers make informed novel device implantation decisions in the absence of preclinical trial data.

Clinical decision supports create ethically complex risks and need to align patients’ and caregivers’ professed values.

For patients historically stripped of control over their reproductive health, consideration of past violations and transparent discussion are key.

Native Americans suffer poverty and significant health inequity and are chronically underrepresented in the clinician workforce.

A nudge is an intervention designed to prompt a person to “voluntarily” make a choice intended by those who altered an environment or situation to yield that choice.

Legacy patients are so-called because their opioid use behaviors express past, aggressive opioid prescribing by a clinician. Managing their pain and dependence justly is ethically complex.

Social work perspectives on whether prescribers should authorize opioid refills emphasize the importance of multidisciplinary approaches to patient self-determination.

Current policy requires separate informed consent for some Public Health Service increased-risk donors, and this can make shared decision making harder.

Shared decision making honors patient autonomy, particularly for preference-sensitive care decisions and even when patients have impaired decision-making capacity.

Whether a patient’s decisional regret constitutes a failure of shared decision making can depend on how a decision was made.