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Chaplains often serve on ethics committees, as ethics consultants, and as institutional review board members. Yet there are no standardized ethics curricula in Clinical Pastoral Education programs.
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Supporting families faced with making critical decisions for incapacitated loved ones is a core ethical duty for ICU clinicians. Yet little is known about family characteristics that predict their dissatisfaction with support during decision-making.
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Updated guidelines offer specific recommendations for embryo research, stem cell embryo models, organoids, chimeras, germline genome editing, and mitochondrial replacement techniques. Public support for controversial research is an overarching goal.
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A Virginia-based health system has learned much about moral distress and why it is important to recognize and intervene.
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The Leapfrog Group wants to see hospitals ensuring bias is not undermining the quality of care delivered to particular patients. From a billing standpoint, fear of costs prevents some from seeking needed care.
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Leading cardiology groups lend new insights on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
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Three recent reports explain how the healthcare industry can improve diversity and inclusion.
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It is unlikely IRBs will see many studies with one enrolled participant (the N=1 study design), but they should be prepared for this type of protocol. The single-subject study design can be applied to chronic conditions like cystic fibrosis or to ultra-rare diseases.
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One hot topic during a recent webinar on diversity in clinical trials centered around whether researchers should use race in a clinical trial. Using race as a variable is never neutral and never scientific, one expert noted.
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Structural racism is a powerful construct that may influence participation in clinical research studies, panelists of a recent webinar noted.
