Making patients bear the costs of increased HIV screening in health care settings | |
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Benefits | Risks or Harms |
Theme: Enables pPatients to learn their HIV status and get treatment as needed | Theme: Creates a barrier to testing |
Sub-theme: Discriminates against those least able to pay who need testing most | |
Theme: Encourages patients to “take ownership” of their behavior and health needs | |
Sub-theme: Leads to an avoidance of testing because of costs | |
Theme: Serves as a motivator to decrease risky behavior | |
Sub-theme: Encourages self-rationing of testing | |
Theme: Makes HIV screening similar to screening for other treatable conditions | |
Theme: Leads to question value of HIV testing because of its costs | |
Theme: Forces people to pay for something they might not want or need | |
Theme: Uses testing as a source of revenue instead of patient benefit | |
How does making patients bear the costs of increased HIV screening in health care settings fulfill responsibilities to patients? | How does making patients bear the costs of increased HIV screening in health care settings violate responsibilities to patients? |
Theme: Identifies patients needing treatment | Theme: Creates a barrier to good health care |
Sub-theme: Discriminates against vulnerable populations | |
Theme: Enables public health benefit of testing | |
Sub-theme: Decreases demand for testing despite responsibility for having patients tested | |
How does making patients bear the costs of increased HIV screening in health care settings respect patients” rights? | How does making patients bear the costs of increased HIV screening in health care settings violate patients’ rights? |
Theme: Informs people about their HIV status | |
Theme: Discriminates by economic and class status | |
Theme: Enables autonomy of choice in medical care | Theme: Obviates community-level benefit of screening in society |
Theme: Inhibits access to medical services | |
Theme: Inhibits willingness to undergo screening |