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Provider Stress Can Trickle Down to Affect Patient Safety
The healthcare industry can be stressful for everyone involved, with clinicians sometimes suffering greatly from the workload, time demands, bureaucracy, and the emotional nature of their work. Minimizing stress is important for the health of the caregivers, but also to maintain patient safety. When staff are exhausted, experiencing depersonalization from their work and feeling less effective, they are more likely to fail to follow practices that support high-quality, safer care.
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1914 Case Established Informed Consent Principles
A 1914 case from the New York Court of Appeals established some of the foundation for what the healthcare community now thinks of as the informed consent process.
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Informed Consent Must Be More Than a Clerical Task
Informed consent is a fundamental part of the healthcare process. Risk managers know the risks that can come with failing to adequately educate patients and document their consent. But the procedure is so common and performed so often that there is potential for it to become routine and less thorough.
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Participants Retained Information Best From Highlighted Informed Consent Form
Study participants retained more relevant information from a consent form based on revised U.S. Common Rule requirements than they did from other designs, according to the authors of a recent study.
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Surprisingly Positive Parental Views on Genomic Testing for Seriously Ill Children
Bioethicists have raised many concerns about the possible negative effects of giving genomic information to patients and families. A recent study’s findings were reassuring.
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Fee-for-Service, Value-Based Payment Models Pose Different Ethical Concerns
Physical therapists are facing some ethical dilemmas over reimbursements for quantity over quality, according to the authors of a recent study.
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Limited Exposure to End-of-Life Care for Pediatric Residents
Ethicists can approach these cases with the awareness that from a learner perspective, these situations are rare and often one of the most challenging and memorable experiences of pediatric trainees.
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Survey: More Difficult for Oncologists to Predict Minority Parents’ Decision-Making
Minority parents may feel less well-supported by clinicians in their decisions.
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Palliative Care Widely Misunderstood by Patients and Professionals
In one study, 60% of adults self-reported as knowledgeable about palliative care have at least one misperception. In another similar study, researchers found that 70% of respondents had never heard of palliative care. Perhaps most concerning, a third study revealed 55% of caregivers have never heard of palliative care.
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Policies Ensure Ethical Care for Marginalized, At-Risk, Unrepresented Patients
Adults who have lost (or perhaps never had) decision-making capacity and do not have either an advance directive or an identifiable, capable, and willing surrogate may be the most vulnerable patients.