Paying the Patient? The Ethics of Incentives to Enhance Patient Compliance

患者不遵守规定，例如没有服用处方药，降低了医疗保健的潜在好处，并是公共医疗系统的一项主要成本。对患者依从性的财政激励是一种试图降低这一公共卫生成本的方法。然而，使用经济激励一直被认为是不道德的。本论文旨在批判性地评估反对使用此类激励措施的主要伦理异议。

Patient non-compliance, such as the failure to take prescribed medicines, reduces the potential benefits of healthcare and represents a major cost to the public healthcare system. A financial incentive for patient compliance is one method which has been used to attempt to reduce this public health cost. However, the use of financial incentives has been viewed as unethical. This thesis aims to critically evaluate the main ethical objections to the use of such incentives.