Medical Ethics Advisor – November 1, 2010
November 1, 2010
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Emergency room medicine and the ethics of boarding patients
The boarding of patients in hospital emergency departments occurs every day across the country and is not atypical, experts suggest. -
Cardiac devices present EOL decisions
In recent years, cardiac devices have become a factor in end-of-life decision-making for ethics consultants. When do you turn off a cardiac device that may keep a patient alive after, for example, the patient has become comatose? -
Palliative care team, CMs help patients
When Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City began looking at implementing palliative care and end-of-life services, the case management department was the appropriate place to start, says Anita Bell, RN, MEd CHPN, palliative care coordinator at the 508-bed facility. -
Working as team boosts community engagement
While considering the "community" in community-engaged research may add new issues for IRBs to consider, they're not in this job alone. -
SHEA: Time to mandate flu shots for HCWs
Influenza vaccination of healthcare personnel is a professional and ethical responsibility and non-compliance with healthcare facility policies regarding vaccination should not be tolerated, argues the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). -
News Briefs
The Endocrine Society has released a new clinical practice guideline on the diagnosis and treatment of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). The guideline features a series of evidence-based clinical recommendations developed by an expert task force.