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Study Sheds Light on How Clinical Ethics Consults Are Categorized
Ethics consultations are categorized in a surprisingly heterogeneous way, found a recent analysis of 30 articles. The most common categories were do not resuscitate orders, capacity, withholding, withdrawing, and surrogate or proxy. Only 26% of the typologies (seven of 27 unique typologies) contained the five most common categories.
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New Guidance on Ethics of Providers’ Internet Searches on Patients
Despite multiple ethical concerns raised regarding providers searching for online information about their patients, specific recommendations have been lacking.
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Ethics of Virtual Visits: In-Person Visits Declined 33% in First Year
Some accountable care organizations are replacing in-person visits with lower-cost virtual visits. Using data from more than 35,000 patients from 2014 to 2017 within a Massachusetts-based ACO, researchers found that the use of virtual visits reduced in-person visits by 33%.
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Analysis of Serious Ethical Violations Uncovered Failure to Identify Egregious Wrongdoing
Often, training is viewed as a way to stop ethical violations. But a recent analysis of 280 cases suggests this is not the answer. Nearly all cases of serious ethical violations involved repeated instances of intentional wrongdoing that went undetected.
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Wrongful Delegation Can Happen Easily; Consequences Are Serious
Risk managers should educate nurses about the potential liability risks from wrongful delegation, which could threaten the nurse’s career and expose the hospital.
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NIOSH Occupational Injury Network Will Close This Year
The OMB determined the network data were not sufficiently representative of all healthcare facilities; thus, benchmarking and interfacility comparisons could not be made.
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New CDC Tuberculosis Guidelines May End Annual Testing of HCWs
The revisions come as TB testing and treatment have improved, while the routine risk of healthcare workers acquiring TB at work has steadily declined.
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Policies Can Set Boundaries, Ensure Ethical Discharges
Often, clinicians perceive the discharge plan is focused on the question of “What are we obliged to do?” instead of “What should we do?”
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‘Tremendous Need’ for Research on EMRs and Advance Care Plans
Despite the proliferation of EMRs, there is little evidence of how useful they are in improving advance care planning.
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Consortium Pushes for Evidence-Based Research Oversight
Rather than careful forethought of action, many of the principles of human research protections are essentially reactionary, formed in the aftermath of a succession of horrific episodes of unethical experimentation, experts say.