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Some of the language of ethics doesn't come naturally to nurses, according to a nurse-ethicist. But an initiative by Indianapolis-based Clarian Health aims to make ethics training and discussion second nature to the 5,000 nurses working there.
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Doctors appear to disclose actual medical errors to their hospitals at a lower rate than their views on disclosure would indicate, according to a University of Iowa researcher.
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There is little doubt that the budget problems and added demand on limited resources that undocumented immigrants contribute to health care institutions is real, and that institutions located closest to the border bear the greatest burden.
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The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston has long been the hospital where indigent patients including illegal immigrants sought care.
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A recent bestselling novel centers around five pivotal people the main character meets in the afterlife. But ethics researchers at The Hastings Center say there are five pivotal people that public health leaders are going to want to meet now, to prepare and protect them before an influenza pandemic.
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A Veterans Health Administration (VA) hospital's move to make its chapel religiously neutral by removing Christian symbols except during Christian services is under fire by two veterans who are considering legal action over what they say is suppression of Christians' freedom of religion.
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Many genetic tests advertised directly to consumers are "home brews" that are neither regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), nor clinically valid, according to findings by a Boston obstetrics/gynecology specialist.
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The Bioethics Resource Group (BRG), a medical ethics education organization in Charlotte, NC, voted to shut itself down in December after 22 years in which it fostered hospital ethics committees and educated clinicians on advance directives and do-not-resuscitate orders.
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Physicians pressed for time need to note whether their patients truly comprehend what they're being told and what they read about their medications; deficient health literacy is being counted as one contributor to health care disparities in some populations.
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It's bad enough when a patient suffers an adverse event from a wrong-site surgery or a medication error; it only adds insult to injury when the patient or his insurer is billed for the procedure in which the error occurred.
