Articles Tagged With: ethics
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EHRs Raise Ethical Concerns on Autonomy, Trust
Researcher: "Electronic health records will thoroughly change our ethical understanding of the doctor-patient relationship, and will probably require us to rethink it within this digital framework."
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Hospital Leaders Asking Questions About ‘Value’ of Clinical Ethics to Organization
Administrators expect to see evidence that a clinical ethical program is worth supporting with financial resources. Yet many ethicists are unprepared for this kind of conversation, one that requires data for an effective response.
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Ethics Education in High Demand for Palliative Care Clinicians
Ethics consultants and palliative care clinicians are obvious partners in the task of caring for patients in pain. The skills of each group, when combined, are of great potential benefit to patients and their families.
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Data: Opioids Rising Cause of Ethics Consults
An analysis conducted at a Massachusetts hospital regarding ethics consults related to opioid prescriptions could provide useful insight for other facilities seeing a rise in such requests.
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Ethics Curriculum Feasible for OB/GYN Faculty
Much ethics education focuses on students and residents, but practicing physicians also need ethics expertise. An ethics and professional curriculum was piloted for faculty in obstetrics and gynecology.
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Federal Court Vacates HHS ‘Conscience Rule’
Rule could have allowed healthcare workers to refuse to participate in or administer certain procedures on religious or moral grounds.
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ICU Team Members’ Ethics Knowledge Varies Widely
ICU team members may lack a common language to talk about ethical problems. These differences shape how ICU professionals think about an ethical dilemma — or even whether something is viewed as an ethical dilemma at all.
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Provide High-Quality Ethics Education on a Limited Budget
Medical institutions didn’t always understand the importance of ethics to physician training, notes Timothy Lahey, MD, MMSc, chair of the clinical ethics committee at Lebanon, NH-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and associate professor at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine.
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Telemedicine sees rapid growth
Almost all major healthcare systems are adopting some form of telehealth, and it is rapidly becoming a standard of care, says David A. Fleming, MD, MA, MACP, director of University of Missouri’s Center for Health Ethics in Columbia.
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Good ethical policies can empower clinicians and improve bottom line
While ethics consults typically focus on individual patients’ unique situations, many involve scenarios that recur repeatedly. These are ideally addressed at an organizationwide level, according to Edward J. Dunn, MD, ScD, a fellow in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at Wright State University in Dayton, OH. Dunn is a former director of the Integrated Ethics Program at Lexington (KY) VA Medical Center.