Question

Ethical considerations for hypertension

Answer 1

Ans)The ethics of compliance for hypertension suggest a conflict within the definition of compliance.

- Evidence-based medicine appears to provide clear pathways for clinical decisions, but, usually, the patient is not a part of the decision-making process.

- Physicians often develop a treatment plan and then attempt to make the therapy acceptable to the patient to achieve compliance. Interventions are tested to change patient behavior, but few are designed to consider the patient's point of view.

- Some suggest that the ideal patient is passive and obedient. However, few patients are either. The individual's perspective and goals most certainly affect adherence with a medical treatment and cannot be ignored.