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As the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services begins a new initiative to reduce the transmission of HIV/AIDS, health care facilities once again are talking about a long-controversial issue whether health care workers should be required to undergo screening for infection with HIV, or hepatitis B and C viruses (HBV, HCV).
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Approximately 62 million Americans speak a language other than English at home, and 25 million have limited English proficiency (LEP).
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Advance directives covering dementia care are complex, according to Rebecca Dresser, JD, Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law and Professor of Ethics in Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
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Preclinical diagnosis of Alzheimers disease shares some of the same controversies surrounding preclinical states of other diseases such as cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, and diabetes.
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Physicians often provide high-intensity care for patients at the end of life, even when the physicians would not choose this for themselves.
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Almost all (96%) of 173 oncology nurses surveyed reported concerns about system barriers in their efforts to help patients prepare for the end of life, according to a 2014 study.
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The Joint Commission's Center for Transforming Healthcare has teamed with 10 hospitals and healthcare systems to try to discover new solutions to the quality care problems associated with miscommunication between caregivers during hand-offs.
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President Barack Obama's words on abortion to a graduating class in 2009 at Notre Dame inspired Charles C. Camosy, PhD, assistant professor of Christian ethics at Fordham University in Bronx, NY, to consider "What if . . .?"
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The American Society for Bioethics & Humanities is proceeding with plans to establish both a certification program for those who act as clinical ethics consultants and accreditation standards for bioethics programs at U.S. colleges,universities, and teaching hospitals.
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According to a new survey, physicians were significantly less comfortable discussing withdrawal of pacemaker (PM) and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy compared with other life-sustaining therapies, with about one-half stating that they were not comfortable having these conversations with patients, according to a new study published in HeartRhythm, a news release from the Heart Rhythm Society.
