Manipulating Behavior: Defining the Ethical Limits of Behavioral Contracting in the Healthcare Setting

Healthcare providers occasionally implement contracts with their patients in order to encourage certain behavioral patterns. These contracts lay out a set of required or prohibited behaviors to which the patient then agrees to adhere. For example, pain management physicians who regularly utilize opioids to alleviate chronic pain might draw up a contract that dictates strict dosing guidelines and other requirements. The patient agrees to adhere to the requirements while knowing that non-adherence might result in a termination of therapy.

Grantor dc:publisher

Wake Forest University

Year dc:date.issued

2015

Author dc:creator

• Boyd, Jacob Lee

• Behavior Contracting

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/57433

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:wakespace.lib.wfu.edu:10339/57433