Articles Tagged With: ethics
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Is Organizational Ethics Part of Ethicists’ Role? It Varies Widely
At many hospitals and health systems, ethicists are focused narrowly on consult requests involving individual patients. However, some ethicists take a broader, systemwide approach with their work.
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Ethicists Are Addressing Social Determinants of Health
Clinicians have begun to focus more attention on identifying and addressing patients’ social determinants of health. Ethicists are doing the same during consults.
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Ethical Guidance for Clinicians Facing Oncology Drug Shortages
Drug shortages have been a challenging problem for many years, but they have become even more prevalent in recent years as a result of supply chain challenges and regulatory changes.
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Evolving Attitudes on Ethics of Adolescent Self-Consent
Ethical considerations regarding adolescent self-consent in healthcare decisions
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Ethics Education Is Inconsistent, But Students Are Interested
Ethics instruction still varies widely at medical schools in terms of the content taught and the amount of time allocated.
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Fraudulent ‘Participants’ Are Ethical Concern — Even in Qualitative Studies
Researchers need to be vigilant in identifying suspicious responses in study samples.
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Higher Mortality for Neurosurgery Patients with Pre-Existing DNRs
Neurosurgeons at University of Rochester Medicine observed that patients with pre-existing do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders receiving cranial neurosurgery tended to have poor outcomes. To see if their clinical observations were reflected in actual data, the neurosurgeons analyzed 30,384 patients who underwent cranial neurosurgery in 2018-2020.
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Audio Assistance Improves Minorities’ Willingness to Participate in Research
Audio-assisted informed consent forms significantly improved the willingness of a sample of primarily African American patients to participate in a mock clinical trial.
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It Is Not Just Physicians: Residents also Receive Industry Payments
Drug and device makers publicly report all gifts made to physicians and advanced practice providers, as required by the 2010 Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Residents and other trainees are excluded from this requirement — but that does not mean these providers are not receiving payments.
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Informed Consent Practices for Acute Stroke Treatment Vary
Currently, the two cornerstones of acute ischemic stroke treatment are intravenous thrombolysis and, for patients with large vessel occlusions, endovascular thrombectomy. For treating clinicians, the question becomes: How do clinicians ensure that patients (or their surrogate decisionmakers) make an informed decision while avoiding treatment delays that can result in worse outcomes?