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Many Ethics Concerns with Involuntary Psychiatric Holds
Hospitals continue to see a surge of psychiatric patients. Some end up being held involuntarily, raising multiple ethical concerns.
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Ethical Informed Consent if Resident Is Involved in Surgery
Given conflicting opinions about disclosing trainee participation in surgery, Nhon Le, MD, and colleagues developed an ethical framework to guide surgeons in disclosing resident involvement during the informed consent process.
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Patients Want Constant Access to Physicians: Well-Being Is an Ethical Concern
Some physicians are torn between promoting their own well-being by establishing healthy communication boundaries and meeting the expectations of their institutions.
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Physicians Respond to Patient Messages — Without Reimbursement
Many patients are in the habit of communicating with doctors through patient portals, sending messages about everything from medication side effects to concerning symptoms. Unlike other patient/physician interactions, though, there is no clear standard for whether doctors are reimbursed for the time they spend responding to all of those electronic messages.
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New Ethical Guidance for Research on Refugee Populations
The federal government recognizes vulnerable and marginalized populations, such as prisoners and children, in research and has created special protection guidelines for investigators to follow when working with these populations. However, refugee populations do not have specific special protections.
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Ethicists Collaborate with Palliative Care Team
Connie M. Ulrich, PhD, MSN, RN, FAAN, and colleagues often observed close collaboration between ethicists and palliative care providers, but wanted to better understand the intersection between palliative care and ethics consultation. The researchers surveyed 86 pediatric palliative care clinicians at 70 children’s hospitals about why they requested ethics consults.
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Ethical Debate Over Normothermic Regional Perfusion
Medical Ethics Advisor interviewed Adam Omelianchuk, PhD, an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy and lead author of a paper on ethical concerns involving normothermic regional perfusion.
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New Guidance on Controversial Organ Transplant Technique
Normothermic regional perfusion (NRP), which restores a donor’s circulation after death, is an ethically controversial new organ donation technique.
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Ethicists Answer These Two Questions on Elder Mistreatment
Should clinicians seek institutional intervention to prevent an abusive or neglectful surrogate from being involved in medical decision-making?
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Ethicists Can Assist with Elder Mistreatment Cases
Clinicians face many challenging ethical issues with patients experiencing elder mistreatment.