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Feedback on clinical ethics consultations from patients, family, colleagues, and the ethics committee can improve the clinical ethics service and identify systemic problems.
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Only 26% of 7946 adults surveyed had an advance directive, according to a recent study. Lack of awareness was the most frequently reported reason for not having an advance directive. Most participants reported concerns about end-of-life care.
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The GUIDE (Genomic Uses in Infectious Disease & Epidemics) project is examining ethical, legal, social, and policy issues involving the application of genomics to prevention and treatment of infectious disease.
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Moving donors from hospitals to a free-standing organ recovery center resulted in significantly reduced surgeon hours, air travel, and cost, according to a recent study which analyzed 915 liver transplants performed from 2001 to 2011.
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Conflicts of interest are common among members of committees that produce clinical practice guidelines for specialty organizations, according to several recent studies.
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A group of bioethicists at New York Presbyterian Hospital implemented a new process to determine who can perform clinical ethics consults.
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While hospice use steadily increased and deaths in the hospital declined, intensive care unit care in the last month of life increased, according to two recent studies.
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Informed consent templates are useful when an IRB office starts a new process or when there are new employees or new investigators submitting applications, but an experienced office can improve IC review quality by weaning its staff off of templates, an expert suggests.