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Early Error Disclosure Training Prepares Residents to Provide Ethical Care
Role-modeling, a strong patient safety culture, and simulation training provided to interdisciplinary groups facilitate error disclosure, found several recent studies.
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Radiation Oncologists Want, but Often Lack, Palliative Care Training
Residents, practicing radiation oncologists, and program directors believe palliative care training is important, but education is lacking in some areas, according to multiple recent studies.
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Patients More Likely to Choose Do Not Resuscitate After Educational Video
Hospitalized patients who watched a video about code status choices were less likely to choose full code, and more likely to choose do not resuscitate or do not intubate, found a study of 119 patients hospitalized on the general medicine service at Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System in Minnesota.
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Study: Surrogates Sometimes Place Own Wishes Over Patient’s
Surrogate decision-makers are valuing what they think is best for the patient more than they value patient preferences in the process of making medical decisions for them, found a recent study.
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Ethical Debate Continues Over Genetically Modified Human Embryos
The first-known experiment creating genetically modified human embryos in the U.S. using a gene-editing tool called CRISPR reignited ethical debate on this type of research.
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Advance Care Planning Often ‘Useless’: Providers Can’t Always Access in EHRs
With electronic health records, patients’ advance care planning should be only a mouse click away. Too often, this isn’t reality.
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Brain Reanimation Investigator Reports Dramatic Results
Though the findings come with a considerable caveat — they have yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal — the lead investigator of a controversial brain reanimation study using “living cadavers” is reporting some dramatic results.
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HHS to Take Action to Protect Research Whistleblowers
The Department of Health and Human Services is taking measures to protect whistleblowers who express concern about human research trials, agreeing with a government watchdog report that the current system has a chilling effect due to “fear of reprisal.”
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IRBs Could Address Ethical Issues Related to Tracking Devices
Some IRBs have begun to review studies that use medical devices with tracking technology. These types of mobile devices raise some ethical and regulatory questions.
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The Choice: A Decision to Decline a Clinical Trial
Ten years ago, Rebecca Dresser, MS, JD, faced a life-changing and, quite possibly, life-saving decision. As a bioethicist and IRB member, she was informed of a diagnosis of cancer and offered a difficult choice: She could enter a new clinical trial for treatment, or follow a specific regimen recommended by oncologists on a tumor board.