Medical Ethics Advisor – January 1, 2016
January 1, 2016
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The Challenge of Advance Care Planning Billing
Providers can now bill Medicare for advance care planning, eliminating one important barrier to end-of-life conversations.
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Ethical approaches to disclose errors made by other clinicians
Physicians face a number of personal and ethical challenges in disclosing medical errors made by a colleague.
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Many oncologists being asked to solicit donations from patients
About one-third of oncologists had been asked to directly solicit a donation from their patients for their institutions, according to a recent study - and half declined to do so.
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Access to mental healthcare is “question of social justice”
Access to equal benefits and qualified providers remains difficult for many insured Americans, despite the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, according to a recent health policy brief.
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Surprising data on nursing homes and “culture change”
Some nursing homes that rely heavily on Medicaid funding have implemented “culture change” or palliative care, a recent study found.
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Growing evidence that teleconsultation can support palliative care provision
There is growing evidence that telepalliative care consultation is an effective approach, but fee-for-service systems and lack of reimbursement are obstacles.
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Were study’s findings misleading?
The “slanting” of data published in the scientific literature was recently spotlighted after an independent analysis suggested a psychiatric drug did not show efficacy, contradicting a previous study’s conclusions.