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Facilitated Ethics Conversations Are Tools to Address Moral Distress
Ethicists often help nurses and other clinicians to identify and address moral distress during ethics consults. However, ethicists struggle to identify the most effective approaches. Lucia Wocial, PhD, FAAN, RN, HEC-C, and colleagues conducted a study to determine the effect of a two-phased moral stress intervention.
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Ethics Expertise Needed for Validation of AI Tools
Shaun Grannis, MD, MS, vice president for data and analytics at Regenstrief Institute and a professor of family medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine, speaks with Medical Ethics Advisor about ethical issues involved with evaluating artificial intelligence tools.
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Ethical Considerations for Validating AI Tools in Clinical Trials
With the growing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into healthcare, there is a need to validate AI applications through rigorous clinical trials.
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Unique Ethical Concerns with AI-Enabled Cardiovascular Care
Multiple artificial intelligence (AI) -based cardiovascular devices are currently being developed and evaluated. In a recent study, researchers sought to identify specific barriers and facilitators to trustworthy and ethical use of AI in cardiovascular care.
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Rise of Private Equity Raises Ethical Conflicts in Emergency Medicine
In emergency medicine, there are growing ethical concerns that the role of private equity firms is putting profits above patient care.
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Physician Selling Practice? Ethical Guidance Is Needed
As healthcare in America continues to consolidate, private independent practices or solo practitioners are fewer in number. A growing number of physicians are selling their practices to private equity firms or other buyers, raising ethical concerns.
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Pediatric Ethics Consults Differ in the Outpatient vs. Inpatient Setting
When consulting on pediatric cases in the outpatient setting, ethicists see distinct issues compared to the inpatient setting, a recent study found.
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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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Report Finds Hospitals Safer Now than Before Pandemic
Hospital and health system performance on key patient safety and quality measures was better in the first quarter of 2024 than before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the American Hospital Association.
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New Patient Safety Initiatives Could Change Standard of Care
New initiatives from the Biden administration could result in improvements to patient safety, but they also may create new compliance burdens and change the standard of care used in malpractices cases.