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Emotional Support for Surrogates Linked to Better Decisions
Emotional support is important, and not only for surrogates’ psychological well-being: It’s also linked to the quality of their decision-making, found a recent study.
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Initiative’s Goal: To Honor Seriously Ill Patients’ Wishes
The Veterans Health Administration's Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative was designed to ensure that the goals, values, and life-sustaining treatment decisions of patients with serious illness are elicited, documented, and honored.
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Unique Informed Consent Challenges if Research Participant Is Incarcerated
Informed consent for research involving incarcerated people presents multiple unique ethical challenges for investigators.
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‘Ethical Obligation to Go Further’ if Patients Are Nonadherent for Financial Reasons
Some patients cannot afford recommended care because of higher out-of-pocket costs due in part to a surge in high-deductible plans.
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Ethics of Unilateral DNR Orders: Physicians Are Evenly Divided
Physicians are evenly divided as to whether unilateral do not resuscitate orders — decisions about resuscitation made by doctors without patient or surrogate consent — are appropriate, found a recent study.
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CDC: No Ban on Politically Charged Words
Infection preventiontists may have been understandably concerned and somewhat confused about a recently reported “word ban” at the CDC that apparently had more to do with politics than clinical science.
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Pediatricians Call for Mandated Flu Shots for Clinic Staff
Joining the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology and many other professional organizations, the American Academy of Pediatrics has issued new guidelines for outpatient clinics that call for mandatory flu vaccination of healthcare staff.
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NIH Approves Research to Enhance Pandemic Pathogens
“Gain-of-function” research designed to make pathogens deadlier in order to develop treatments and countermeasures has been given a green light by the National Institutes of Health.
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Changing Human Behavior on Antibiotic Stewardship
Infection preventionists are turning to social scientists to better understand why it is so difficult to get people to consistently wash their hands or, in a more recent example, stop them from overprescribing drugs or inappropriately using broad-spectrum antibiotics that will select out resistant organisms.
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Zika Virus: Not Gone, Certainly Not Forgotten
A mosquito bite, typically a mere nuisance, becomes something else entirely when the mosquito carries Zika. It sets off a series of risks and variables that reach their most dire consequence if the virus reaches a human fetus, particularly during the first trimester of pregnancy.