Articles Tagged With: communication
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Delivering Bad News in the Emergency Department
Clear, timely communication during critical events can significantly reduce long-term psychological distress in families, underscoring that how providers communicate in the emergency department can be as impactful as the medical care delivered.
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Organ Donation Practices Are Being Ethically Scrutinized: Communication Is a Key Concern
Ethical controversies in organ donation include missteps during procurement, poorly timed family communication, and debate over normothermic regional perfusion. Transparent dialogue, ethical safeguards, and better clinician training help to uphold patient and family values.
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Ethical Approaches for End-of-Life Communication with Non-English-Speaking ICU Patients
When caring for non-English-language-speaking intensive care unit patients, clinicians face all the same ethical issues as they do with any other patient, and some additional ones when cases involve patients who speak rarer languages.
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Clinicians Have Many Ethical Concerns with Large Language Model Use in Healthcare
Inaccurate or biased responses, concerns about patient data privacy, and risk of harm from medical misinformation are some well-known ethical concerns about large language models in healthcare.
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Ethics Issues for Young Adults Vary Depending on Setting
As a medical student at the University of Michigan, Samantha Lyons, MD, HEC-C, regularly attended both pediatric and adult ethics committee meetings. Lyons noticed that for young adults, different approaches were used based on whether the patient presented to the pediatric or adult setting. In general, pediatric care was more family-oriented, whereas adult care placed more emphasis on patients being autonomous and independent.
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QI Initiative Increases Goals of Care Conversations
Many hospitalized patients lack goals of care conversations, causing ethical conflicts at the end of life.
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Ethical Obligations if Patients Have Limited English Proficiency
As a nurse and clinical bioethicist, Melissa Kurtz Uveges, PhD, MA, RN, had a strong desire to facilitate communication with patients with Limited English Proficiency and to provide information in their preferred language.
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Ethical Considerations for Patient, Family, and Staff if LVAD Is Deactivated
An estimated 2,500 heart failure patients have left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) implanted each year. In some cases, the burdens of the LVAD outweigh the benefits, so a decision is made to deactivate the device in the hospital setting.
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Communication Is Major Contributing Factor to ED Malpractice Claims
Emergency department (ED) malpractice claims frequently contain allegations that delayed diagnoses led to poor outcomes or death. “Many times, the primary contributing factor is lack of communication,” according to Jacqueline Ross, RN, PhD, coding director in the department of patient safety and risk management at The Doctors Company.
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Patient and Family Complaints Require Careful Response
Healthcare organizations should have processes for responding to complaints from patients and families. The nature and seriousness of the complaint will dictate how much of a response is required.