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Stigmatizing Language in Patient Charts Linked to Diagnostic Errors
You have probably seen — and possibly even used — terms such as “difficult patient” or “drug-seeking” in medical charts. But did you ever wonder if stigmatizing language puts patients at risk for diagnostic error?
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Oncologists’ Ethical Concerns on Use of AI in Cancer Care
Most oncologists feel responsible for protecting patients from biased artificial intelligence tools, but few were confident in their ability to do so, a recent study found.
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New Data on Strategies to Increase Advance Care Planning
Despite ample evidence that advance care planning can benefit patients, families, and healthcare systems, most older adults have not completed it. Many clinicians and researchers are trying to find effective strategies to increase advance planning rates.
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Infrequent Billing for Advance Care Planning Is Ethical Concern
A recent study’s findings show that patients with billed advance care planning encounters had decreased expenditures at the end of life.
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Ethicists Are Facing Complex Medical-Aid-in-Dying Cases
Clinicians face unique ethical questions with medical-aid-in-dying (MAID) cases, and ethicists soon may be seeing more consults involving this issue.
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Ethical Decision-Making for High-Risk Surgical Patients
High-risk patients present some unique ethical considerations for surgeons. One issue is that surgeons are under increasing pressure to meet quality metrics, but high-risk patients are more likely to have adverse outcomes. That can result in lower metrics — and, possibly, less reimbursement.
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Was the Consult Effective? Ethicists Survey Requestors
If ethics programs really want to know how well they are doing, individuals who participated in consults are ideal sources of information. To obtain this valuable feedback, some ethics programs are using surveys.
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Bioethics Field Is Less Diverse, with Different Views, than the General Public
Bioethics is a growing and influential field, yet little is known about bioethicists themselves. “It is important to understand bioethicists’ backgrounds and views because these may shape policies and practices,” says Leah Pierson, PhD, an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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References Used to Support Ethics Recommendations Depend on the Ethicist
What references are ethics consultants actually using to support their recommendations? And are ethics consultants using the same references?
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Missouri Appellate Court Reverses Trial Court’s Grant of Summary Judgment After Finding that Injured Patient’s Evidence Could Show Medical Negligence of Chiropractor
In a medical negligence case, an appellate court in Missouri recently reversed a trial court’s grant of summary judgment to a chiropractor defendant on the basis that there were factual issues that should have been decided by the jury. After a patient sued her chiropractor when she suffered three broken ribs during a treatment, the chiropractor defendant claimed that the patient was claiming medical negligence by pointing to her injury rather than showing that the chiropractor was negligent or that the chiropractor’s alleged negligence caused her injury.