Medical Ethics Advisor
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Innovative program effectively educates nurses on clinical ethics
A Clinical Ethics Residency for Nurses has been developed at two large northeastern academic medical centers. One goal is to teach nurses how to be effective advocates for patients whose circumstances, problems, and treatments are ethically complex.
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Ensure patients’ wishes are respected through surrogate decisionmakers
A recent ethics consult at The Ottawa Hospital in Ontario, Canada involved a victim of domestic violence. “The challenge was that the husband, who had severely beaten the patient, was the patient’s substitute decisionmaker,” recalls Thomas Foreman, DHCE, MA, MPIA, director of the Department of Clinical and Organizational Ethics. -
IOM: End-of-Life Care is Inadequate in the US
The American healthcare system is poorly equipped to care for patients at the end of life, according an Institute of Medicine report.
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Palliative care: advancing or deficient?
In an updated report1 that appears in a recent issue of Journal of Palliative Medicine, researchers examined the ability to accessibility of palliative care in U.S. hospitals. -
BOGO: Healthcare by smartphone
The smartphone has helped drive the astronomical growth of the group coupon market, since notifications of daily coupons, also known as "daily deal alerts," are sent directly to the phone and the codes can be redeemed directly off of the device. -
Improvement checklists help quality processes
When review boards and research organizations' quality improvement (QI) offices work together, the net effect is a more thorough and efficient human subjects research process, experts say. -
'Buy one get one free' healthcare Is it unethical or just undignified?
Consumer web sites such as LivingSocial, Groupon, Loclly, and Ebates are popping up in millions of e-mail inboxes across the United States offering everything from sushi dinners and massages to car washes and now, healthcare. -
Emotional toll of DTC genetic testing
Among the latest healthcare trends seeking to advance "individualized medicine" are private companies marketing genetic testing directly to patients. -
Undocumented patients get a safety net
The Hastings Center is exploring the ethical challenges that clinicians and organizations face when providing medical care to undocumented immigrants in the United States. The project is supported by a grant from the Overbrook Foundation Domestic Human Rights Program. -
Ethical complexities of conjoined twins
The case of a pair of "craniopagus" twins (conjoined at the head) illustrates the complex bioethical issues involved in deciding whether to attempt separation surgery, according to an article1 in a recent issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).