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There is a need for bioethicists to educate patients and providers at extended care homes on end-of-life issues.
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Regularly scheduled peer review, surveys of stakeholders, and demonstration of continuous improvement of policies are some approaches to improve ethics consults.
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Some bioethicists are expanding their role beyond case consultation into organizational ethics, but may encounter barriers such as lack of support from leadership.
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More data are being collected at the point of care with the goal of improving quality, but there is widespread uncertainty as to what kind of oversight quality improvement research requires.
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More than half of rheumatologists who responded to a 2013 survey reported the high cost of treatment for their patients as an ethical concern.
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The worsening nursing shortage is a crisis that can completely sink the struggling U.S. health care system if hospitals and other institutions dont do more to address the root causes of the shortage, health executives told government leaders last month.
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An Iowa district court judge has rescinded his order requiring a local Planned Parenthood clinic to turn over the names of women receiving positive pregnancy tests to law enforcement officials investigating the death of a newborn.
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With more terminally ill patients receiving care outside the hospital, in hospices, home health or in nursing homes, it is becoming increasingly common for emergency medical service (EMS) providers to encounter patients with advance directives or living wills that ask that they not be resuscitated or that certain lifesaving measures not be performed should their hearts stop beating.
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For years, professional medical societies have warned their members that accepting the free meals, trips, and other gifts offered by pharmaceutical sales personnel can compromise physician-patient relationships and should be avoided.
