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Many Providers Say Spiritual Needs Should Be Assessed, But Few Do So
Should health professionals take a screening spiritual history of their patients? Most clinicians agreed they should, a recent survey found.
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Novel Approaches to Justify Ethics Resources: Value Goes Beyond ROI
Ethics services often find it challenging to demonstrate financial impact on the organization due to lack of data and the preventive nature of many interventions.
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Disability Trajectories Give Insights on End of Life
Derived disability trajectories provide useful information about different facets of the end-of-life experience, found a recent study.
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Ethical Dilemma? Too Often, Chaplains Are Involved Last
Conscientious objection of providers, moral distress, patient adherence, and difficult or noncompliant patients all are situations where chaplains can be of help. Yet when healthcare teams are concerned about medical ethics dilemmas, chaplains often are the team members who are involved last.
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Patient-reported Resuscitation Status Doesn’t Necessarily Match Clinicians’ Orders
Patient-reported and clinician-ordered resuscitation preferences were discordant in 20% of patients hospitalized with acute decompensated heart failure, a recent study reports.
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Blacks and Whites, but Not Hispanics, Increasing Advance Directive Completion
Blacks and whites had longitudinal increased rates of advance directive completion, but the same was not true for Hispanics, a recent study found.
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Vast Majority of Patients Want to Be Informed of Overlapping Surgery
Overlapping surgery has been common for many years. Yet only 3.9% of the general public had any knowledge of the practice, found a recent study.
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Patient Left No End-of-Life Wishes? Surrogates Need Ethicists’ Help
Surrogates face an increased burden if they’re unaware of patients’ end-of-life wishes, according to a growing body of research.
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Report Sheds Light on Inner Workings of Hospital Ethics Committee
A recent report describes the structure and operation of the Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital ethics committee from 2007-2013.
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New Data Shed Light on Nurses’ Reasons for Applying to Clinical Ethics Residency
A clinical ethics residency for nurses met with strong demand at two academic medical centers.