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Certification Now Possible for Clinical Ethics Consultants: Applicants Are ‘Agents of Change’
The Healthcare Ethics Consultation Certification is the first program to identify and assess a national standard for healthcare ethics consultants.
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Barriers Exist to Family-centered ICU Care
New guidelines from the Society of Critical Care Medicine emphasize the benefits of family-centered care in the ICU.
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Study: Effects of Early Palliative Care Differ by Age, Gender
The effects of early palliative care differ depending on patients’ age and gender, found a recent study.
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Views on Disclosure of Donor-assisted Conception Are Evolving
Should parents inform their children that they were conceived by gamete or embryo donation? A position statement from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine examines the ethics of this issue.
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Physicians’ Mental Health ‘Finally Getting the Attention It Deserves’
Physician well-being is increasingly being recognized as an ethical issue, but mental health stigma remains an obstacle.
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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.