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Healthcare Diversity, Equity Efforts Under Attack After SCOTUS Ruling
Having seen the raw inequity the pandemic exposed in the healthcare system, one would think it has become harder to deny or rationalize the lack of diversity in caregivers and higher adverse outcomes in marginalized patient populations. But one would be wrong.
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Inappropriate Diagnosis of Pneumonia Is Common in Hospitalized Patients
A cohort study that included 48 hospitals in Michigan found that 12% of patients treated for community-acquired pneumonia were diagnosed inappropriately. Older age, dementia, and presenting with acute change in mental status increased the risk for misdiagnosis.
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Mosquito-Borne Diseases in the 21st Century
Hundreds of millions of people across the globe are affected by mosquito-borne diseases each year, and travelers who do not exercise caution and take preventive measures are at especially high risk. Mosquito-borne diseases are found mostly in tropical and subtropical destinations, ranging from America to Africa and Asia. Chikungunya virus, dengue, filariasis, Japanese encephalitis virus, malaria, West Nile virus, yellow fever, and Zika virus are particular sources of concern for travelers venturing into regions where these vectors abound. This article will focus on these mosquito-borne illnesses, especially the flaviviruses.
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Appellate Court Affirms Trial Court’s Grant of Summary Judgment in Drowning Case
The Georgia Court of Appeals recently upheld a trial court’s decision granting summary judgment to the defendants in a medical malpractice suit following the accidental drowning death of a patient after he was discharged from the hospital.
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Appeals Court Affirms Exclusion of Evidence and Defense Verdict After Delivery of Newborn
A recent medical malpractice case in Ohio provides an important primer on the evidence that plaintiffs can use to try to establish malpractice.
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Nursing Leaders Need Ethicists’ Help with Moral Distress
As an early career nurse in 2020, Preston H. Miller, PhD, RN, CCRN-CMC, PCCN, CFRN, experienced the many effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on nursing practice and healthcare in general. Miller conducted a formal literature review and found that what literature did exist was qualitative in nature. “The findings of this review revealed a lack of research on moral distress among unit-based critical care nurse leaders,” says Miller.
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Ethical Informed Consent Is Challenge in NICU
Informed consent is rooted in the ethical principles of patient autonomy and shared decision-making. Suboptimal consenting practices can jeopardize patient autonomy.
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Egregious Ethics Violations Require Involvement of State Medical Boards
Ethicists address a wide array of ethical issues in the hospital setting, ranging from conflicts among clinical team members and concerns about potentially inappropriate end-of-life care. But what if a nurse or clinician reports that a physician has committed serious wrongdoing?
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Ethical Guidance if Clinicians Use Tests to Search for Covert Consciousness
Clinical professional society guidelines in America and Europe now recommend the use of advanced tests (such as functional magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalogram) to search for covert consciousness in some patients who appear behaviorally unresponsive at the bedside after severe brain injury.
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Emerging Ethical Issues with Chronic Pain Care
The integration of telemedicine and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the specialty of pain medicine poses some unique ethical challenges, according to a recent paper.