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Patient-reported Resuscitation Status Doesn’t Necessarily Match Clinicians’ Orders
Patient-reported and clinician-ordered resuscitation preferences were discordant in 20% of patients hospitalized with acute decompensated heart failure, a recent study reports.
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Blacks and Whites, but Not Hispanics, Increasing Advance Directive Completion
Blacks and whites had longitudinal increased rates of advance directive completion, but the same was not true for Hispanics, a recent study found.
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Vast Majority of Patients Want to Be Informed of Overlapping Surgery
Overlapping surgery has been common for many years. Yet only 3.9% of the general public had any knowledge of the practice, found a recent study.
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Patient Left No End-of-Life Wishes? Surrogates Need Ethicists’ Help
Surrogates face an increased burden if they’re unaware of patients’ end-of-life wishes, according to a growing body of research.
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Report Sheds Light on Inner Workings of Hospital Ethics Committee
A recent report describes the structure and operation of the Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital ethics committee from 2007-2013.
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New Data Shed Light on Nurses’ Reasons for Applying to Clinical Ethics Residency
A clinical ethics residency for nurses met with strong demand at two academic medical centers.
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Controversy Persists as States, Courts ‘Question, Push Back, and Challenge’ Brain Death Criteria
Guidelines from the American Academy of Neurology were recently endorsed by several organizations as a medical standard for determining brain death, despite a controversial Nevada Supreme Court ruling that casts doubt on this stance.
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Into the Gray: Local IRBs Must Define Research
It’s only fitting, with the revised Common Rule in limbo, that there should remain some uncertainty about what constitutes human research — and what doesn’t.
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Five Years in the Making, FDA Issues Final Rule on Data and Devices
The FDA issued a final rule, effective Feb. 21, 2019, to revise regulations about accepting data from clinical studies involving medical devices.
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The Search for Justice in the Human Genome
With sequencing of the human genome completed at the turn of this century, there was the heady expectation that the summit to great cures was about to be climbed like the iconic spiral staircase of DNA.