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If you ask Laura Ann Wagner, president and CEO of In-House Hopice, based in Southfield, MI, the explanation why costs are increasing for the Medicare hospice benefit the answer is a simple one: Baby boomers are aging, and more of them are taking advantage of that benefit.
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Q & A with Felicia Cohn, PhD, director of medical ethics, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine.
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SouthernCare Inc. and its shareholders agreed to pay the United States a total of $24.7 million to settle allegations that the company submitted false claims to the government for patients treated at its hospice facilities, the U.S. Justice Department reported in mid-January.
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While brain death is widely accepted as a way of defining when death has occurred, this determination, or category of death, can create its own set of problems.
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"Defining Wisdom," a project of The University of Chicago across multiple disciplines, awarded Lauris Kaldjian, MD, PhD, in 2008 a grant to develop a framework for medical decision making.
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One ethical dilemma nurses face when they move from clinical care to clinical research (CR) is the way the two fields' missions are different with regard to patients.
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Clinical trial (CT) sites should be providing research nurses and other staff with the best possible foundation in clinical research ethics, as well as helping them make the transition from clinical care to research trials, experts say.
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The House of Delegates of the American Medical Association (AMA) in Chicago at its November 2008 meeting in Orlando voted to ask The Joint Commission for a moratorium on its disruptive physicians policy, introduced in July 2008 and scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2009. A decision on the matter was not reached prior to press time.
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United Kingdom's Baroness Mary Warnock, considered an expert on medical ethics, created a stir in late 2008 with her suggestion that those in the UK with dementia have a duty to die, so as not to strain public health resources.
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On Nov. 4, 2008, Washington state voters passed a ballot initiative giving terminally ill patients with six months to live the right to have a physician prescribe lethal drugs for the patient to self-administer to bring about his or her death.
