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QI Initiative Increases Goals of Care Conversations
Many hospitalized patients lack goals of care conversations, causing ethical conflicts at the end of life.
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Ethical Concerns with Portable MRIs in Research
New portable magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technologies are being developed, allowing study investigators to conduct field-based research in remote settings. The introduction of portable MRI technologies means that new users, some with less experience with MRI research, are using MRI in new locations. There also is increased variation in image resolution. All those factors raise concerns about researchers’ ability to maintain quality control.
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Ethicists Are Addressing Ableism in Medical Education, Clinical Practice
There is increasing attention to the issue of ableism in healthcare. One concern is that medical education is not doing enough to include the perspectives of people with disabilities.
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Recent Cases Add to Complexity of Treatment Withdrawal Decision-Making
Many ethics consults involve conflicts over withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment. If patients’ families are aware of recent cases demonstrating recovery potential in patients with traumatic brain injury who were thought to have a low chance of survival, it can make the decision-making process even more challenging.
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Mental Health Issues Are Coming Up During Ethics Consults
Mental health issues are coming up more frequently during ethics consults, according to ethicists interviewed by Medical Ethics Advisor.
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Many Ethics Committees Lack Formal Process for Education, Orientation
One of the primary functions of an ethics committee is education — for members, for clinicians, and for patients and their family members. Yet most ethics committees have no formal orientation process, and many have no ongoing ethics education process, according to a recent survey of hospital leaders at AdventHealth.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Abandoning Universal COVID Admission Screening; Does Obesity Affect HIV Drug Levels? Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables!
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Out of Africa Again? A New Version of Mpox
A novel mpox clade has emerged in Africa and has the potential for a global epidemic.
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Effectiveness and Safety of Transitioning to Oral Antibiotics in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients with Uncomplicated Gram-Negative Bloodstream Infection
In a retrospective observational study, transitioning to oral antibiotics was demonstrated to be as effective and safer in solid organ transplant recipients with uncomplicated gram-negative bacteremia as compared with completion of therapy with intravenous antibiotics.
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Extensively Drug-Resistant Shigella on the Rise
The prevalence of Shigella resistant to azithromycin, ciprofloxacin, ceftriaxone, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, and ampicillin is increasing.