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President Obama's administration reversed its decision to revise a Medicare regulation to include paying physicians to discuss good advance care planning with patients.
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Hospital ethics boards seeking a solution for efficiently and effectively documenting and assessing ethics consultation work could find a best practice in the ethics consultation web (ECWeb) program developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Washington, DC, experts say.
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Hospitals might improve their ethics consultation processes if they design and use a brief ethics family assessment tool to determine families' and patients' values, two ethicists say.
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Hospital ethics committees sometimes are called to handle cases involving donation after cardiac death (DCD), but handling these cases can be a challenge, an expert says.
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Hospital ethics boards now can refer to national guidelines when developing procedural standards and processes for evaluating quality of ethics consultations (EC) and institutional EC processes.
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On March 14, there was a big celebration at Mercy Memorial Hospital in Monroe, MI, attended by officials from the Michigan Hospital Association.
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There are literally dozens of studies that enumerate some of the problems that plague patients as a result of imperfect transitions of care.
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Most people have trouble planning the next week's dinners or their next vacation, let alone something that is two and a half years away.
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Increasing data show that variations in care have a negative impact on outcomes and costs some estimates are that almost a third of healthcare dollars are spent in a wasteful manner or go to overuse of the system.
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The Joint Commission can start accrediting psychiatric hospitals, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in late February 2011.