Articles Tagged With: ethics
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Ethicists Make Changes to Improve Consult Documentation
When clinical ethicists provide guidance to resolve a healthcare ethics question, they are making recommendations about a patient’s clinical care. A Veterans Health Administration National Center for Ethics in Health Care Improvement Team set out to make ethics documentation easier, while still maintaining high quality standards.
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Ethicists Expand Footprint with Bioethics Ambassador Program
As Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center grew from a single campus in Manhattan to more than 12 outpatient care centers throughout New York City and the surrounding suburbs, ethicists saw the need for an expanded presence. To create a cadre of local clinicians with knowledge in addressing common ethical issues that arise in cancer care, the MSK Ethics Committee created a Bioethics Ambassador Program.
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Ethicists Are Finding Ways to Assist in Outpatient Settings
As hospitals continue to merge and expand their geographic footprint, ethicists must meet the needs of clinicians at all those care settings.
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How Does Your Ethics Program Compare? New Ways to Obtain Benchmarking Data
To improve, ethics programs need to know how they compare to other ethics programs. However, a lack of benchmarking data in the bioethics field remains a frustrating obstacle.
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Ethics Consult Requestors Validate Value of Ethicists, Voice Concerns About Access
What is the value of an ethics consultation? Clinical areas rely on hard data, such as an increase in the percentage of patients receiving medication in a specific timeframe, to demonstrate quality. For ethics, a “good” consult is much harder to define and is talked about in terms of qualitative, rather than quantitative, data.
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Ethics of Informed Consent for Randomized Comparative Effectiveness Studies
Randomized comparative effectiveness studies often compare treatments within the standard of care to determine which is better for patients. When research and clinical care are combined in this way, healthcare providers can be confused about what is required in terms of obtaining consent for enrollment in the research study.
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Implementation Research Raises Unique Ethical Questions
Implementation research improves the adoption of evidence-based interventions in actual clinical practice. Lack of guidance from existing ethics frameworks makes it difficult for implementation science researchers to anticipate what will be ethically problematic.
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Ethical Concerns with Crowdfunding for Organ Transplantation
Even if insurance covers some or most of the cost of an organ transplant, recipients (and to a lesser extent, donors) can face a significant financial burden. Financial expenses surrounding organ transplantation are motivating some recipients to raise money through medical crowdfunding.
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Ethical Debate over Research on Enhancement of Brain Function
Technology is advancing rapidly for enhancement of brain function in healthy people, but remains ethically controversial.
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Clinicians Are Turning to AI Tools for Help with Ethical Decisions
Artificial intelligence tools are used for many healthcare-related applications — but what about helping clinicians with ethically complex medical decisions?