IAGS · Scientific position article · Peer-reviewed
Trust through independence
Medical responsibility, patient autonomy and the separation of advice, treatment and outcome assessment
Relevance to Trusted Ones
The article discusses Trusted Ones in the context of treatment-specific doctor matching. It focuses on the separation of matching fees from treatment costs, transparent selection criteria and the distinction between organisational matching and medical assessment of an indication.
Section 6.3 · Narrative evidence synthesis and analysis of medical governance models
The organisational model discussed in the article
Conceptual diagram based on IAGS draft 0.1 (30 September 2026). A, B and C are different people with separate financial interests. A and C offer the patient no subsequent elective aesthetic treatment. This is an organisational proposal, not an empirically validated causal pathway; necessary care and aftercare remain available.
Source: IAGS position article · Figure 3.
The article presents the position of the IAGS initiative. The companies are selected examples; this is not an independent provider ranking.
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