Medical Ethics Advisor – February 1, 2017
February 1, 2017
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Medical Ethics Advisor Spotlights Quality
This month’s issue of Medical Ethics Advisor is a special issue on quality and ethics.
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ASBH to Address Lack of National Standard for Ethics Consultation
The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities is considering developing a national standard for assessment of individuals who perform clinical ethics consultations.
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No Current Standards for Training on Ethics Consults
The Association of Bioethics Program Directors is currently considering standards for healthcare ethics consultation training programs.
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Want to Assess Ethics? Clear Standards are a Good Start
As a consultant who helps healthcare organizations with their ethics programs, Ellen Fox, MD, often finds people want to evaluate quality but don’t know where to begin.
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Ethicists Demonstrate Benefits by Surveying Clinicians
Ethicists at Indiana University surveyed clinicians about their experience with ethics consultation.
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VHA Uses Comprehensive Approach to Ethics Evaluation
Is an ethics consultant highly qualified and able to demonstrate his or her knowledge with an impressive portfolio of cases?
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Ethicists are Seeing More Complicated Cases
Ethicists at Memorial Medical Center were seeing increasingly complicated cases extending over longer time frames, and created a tool to determine complexity of cases.
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Researchers Propose Approach to Identify Quality Measures for Ethics
While there is a great deal of diverse literature on clinical ethics consultation, it has never been looked at through the specific lens of quality measurement.
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Ethical Implications of Burdensome Readmissions
Dual eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid is associated with lower 30-day readmission rates in patients enrolled in a hospice program, found a recent study.