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Big Data in Healthcare: Privacy Is Major Ethical Concern
Healthcare privacy is a central ethical concern involving the use of big data in healthcare, with vast amounts of personal information widely accessible electronically.
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Pediatric End-Of-Life Care: An ‘Additional Layer Of Complexity’
Ethicists can encourage clinicians to consider language used to communicate with parents and ask about the family’s values to ensure ethical pediatric end-of-life care.
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ICU Strain Speeds Timing to Withdrawal of Life-sustaining Therapy
During busy periods in the ICU, decision-making regarding withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy is made more quickly, found a recent study. Researchers analyzed the effect of ICU capacity strain on 9,891 patients dying in the hospital.
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ED-Initiated Palliative Care Yields Dramatic Cost Savings
ED-initiated palliative care consults have the potential to decrease costs and length of stay, found a recent study.
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Surrogate Decision-makers Face Ethical Questions If Patient Has Dementia
Even when the prior wishes of a patient with dementia were known, the process of decision-making was often fraught with complexity, found a recent study.
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Study: Palliative Care Meetings Did Not Reduce Anxiety, Depression
Palliative care-led informational and emotional support meetings with families of ICU patients did not reduce anxiety or depression symptoms, and may have increased post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, found a recent study.
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Growing Focus on Physician Well-being: More Than Half Report Burnout
More than half of U.S. physicians are now experiencing professional burnout, found a recent study.
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Data Reveal Reasons for Under-enrollment of Minorities In Clinical Trials
Barriers to enrolling a diverse population of patients in clinical trials are complex and multilevel, concluded a recent study.
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‘Very Serious Ethical Problem:’ Adverse Events Often Unpublished
Much information on adverse events in clinical trials remains unpublished — and the number of adverse events is higher in unpublished than published versions of the same study, according to a recent review.
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Medical Assistance In Dying Now Legal In Canada: Ethicists Are Providing Education
Physician-assisted dying is legal in Canada, due to legislation passed in June 2016. Ethicists are among those providing multidisciplinary education in the hospital setting.