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The past 50 years in medicine have brought amazing advances in technology and pharmacology that have been able to defer death for many more people until much later in life, notes Nancy E. Havas, MD, FAAFP, associate professor at the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities at Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
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Decisions about whether to offer genetic testing and screening to children should be driven by what is in the best interest of the child, emphasizes Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD, Carolyn and Matthew Bucksbaum professor of clinical ethics and associate director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics in Chicago, IL.
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When the Department of Health and Human Services announced plans in 2011 for a mystery shopper study of access to primary care, some physicians raised ethical concerns about the use of deception with human subjects without soliciting their informed consent.
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The majority of third-year medical students were able to recall the four ethical principles, appreciated the relevance of preclinical ethics education, and had positive self-assessments of their clinical-ethical reasoning abilities, according to a recent study.
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Although not subject to the provisions of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, which become effective in September 2014, sales of medications or products in provider offices could unduly influence patients, says Margaret R. McLean, PhD, associate director and director of bioethics at Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara (CA) University.
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State insurance exchanges and the federal marketplace got off to a rough start at the beginning of October.
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Clostridium difficile (C. diff) should sound a lot scarier for what it is: the second most common nosocomial infection in hospitals, with an average cost of $5,000 for each patient episode and an extra week in the hospital.
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Have you read the final rule for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2014 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) yet?
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It can be very hard to find a physician champion for quality improvement projects. Docs are busy there are more responsibilities, patients are sicker, days are longer, and resources are tight.
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Patient access leaders at Florida Hospital cut denials to only .08%, and wrote off $1.9 million in 2012 compared with $4.5 million in 2002.