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Committee Tackles Ethical Issues in Psychiatric Genetics Field
According to one committee member, there is a lack of guidance about the responsible use of psychiatric genetics in clinical and nonclinical settings.
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Simulation Improved Pharmacy Students' End-of-Life Expertise
Groups of nursing and pharmacy students were exposed to either a case study approach in a classroom setting or simulated versions of the same cases.
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Be on Your Best Behavior: The Ethics Police Are on the Way
There are a few common scenarios involving ethics misconceptions.
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Interventions Aim to Promote Ethical Research Practices
Researchers tested the efficacy of a one-hour training session on psychology graduate students' attitudes toward ethically questionable research practices. Students who rated the training more favorably demonstrated greater attitude change toward detrimental research practices.
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Optimism Linked With Better Outcomes: Physicians Can Promote It
Researchers found that higher levels of baseline optimism were, in fact, associated with lower rates of ischemia-driven hospitalization and revascularization. This group of patients showed greater improvements in angina severity compared with lower levels of baseline optimism.
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Are High-Dose Painkillers Ordered? Ethics Can Prevent Harm, Conflicts, Legal Disasters
Ethicists can help resolve issues in cases involving high-dose painkillers by using highly publicized cases as a teaching tool, determining which cases should be escalated automatically, and helping resolve conflicts among clinicians.
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Widespread Boarding of Pediatric Psychiatric Patients Raises Concerns
It is difficult to imagine a child with a medical emergency staying in an ED for several days waiting for an inpatient bed. Yet, it happens routinely to children and adolescents with psychiatric emergencies.
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Early Documentation of End-of-Life Wishes Linked to Better Outcomes
Careful and early charting of a hospice patient’s end-of-life wishes reduces the chance of an unwanted hospitalization, according to the results of a recent investigation.
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Ethical Education on Mechanical Circulatory Support Lacking
Modern life-sustaining therapies pose some complex ethical questions. Still, most residency and fellowship programs do not address the ethics of these interventions specifically.