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Ethics of Default Options for Advance Directives
Default options in advance directives strongly influenced patients’ end-of-life care choices, according to the authors of a recent study.
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Data Reveal More About Patients Who Request Medical Assistance in Dying
More people are asking for medical assistance in dying, but surprisingly little is known about this population.
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More Than 300 Clinical Ethicists Have Earned HEC-C Credential
One year in, the program is popular, but questions remain regarding the certification's importance to administrators when they are evaluating skills and making hiring decisions.
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Nurses Create Approach to Ethical Decision-Making
Follow the four “Rs”: Recognize what is behind problematic decision-making, Release preconceived attitudes, Reconsider new approaches, and Restart with a fresh focus.
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Establishing the Right Policies on Decision-Making for Unrepresented ICU Patients
A new policy statement recommends institutions prevent patients from becoming unrepresented in the first place by offering advance care planning. Conduct thorough capacity assessments and search for potential surrogates before assuming patients are unrepresented.
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Black Researchers at Disadvantage for NIH Funding
Three separate analyses reveal gaps in funding, peer review scores, and publication rates.
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Ethical Responses If Patients Ask for Provider of Different Race
If mishandled, the situation can result in problems ranging from bad clinical outcomes to Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act violations — even litigation.
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Ethics Can Help Drive Efforts to Address Racial Disparities in Healthcare
The healthcare industry must recognize that it is not enough to avoid actions that are affirmatively biased against minority groups. It takes affirmative efforts to overcome a deeply ingrained history of exclusion.
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Ethical Processes Needed When Patients Ask to Stop Left Ventricular Assist Devices
Of patients with left ventricular assist devices, about half end up deciding to withdraw them. Investigators noticed that when the patient was the one making the request, the entire decision-making process seemed to take longer.
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Many Hospitals Lacked Ventilator Triage Policies When COVID-19 Pandemic Hit
More than half of institutions did not have ventilator triage policies in place when the pandemic arrived, according to the authors of a study.