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Too Few Ethics Consults for Children With Chronic Critical Illness: Less Than 1%
Very few hospitalized children with chronic critical illness get ethics or palliative care consultations, found a recent study.
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Geneticist: Rogue Scientist’s Gene-Editing Procedure Violated Bedrock Ethical Principles
A Chinese scientist’s recent announcement of a genome-editing procedure performed to protect children from HIV has significant implications for the bioethics and genomics fields.
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More Data on Moral Distress: It Harms Nurses, Physicians, Hospitals — and Patients
A group of researchers set out to learn the most effective ways to decrease moral distress in healthcare. In the process, they discovered the toll it was taking was greater than expected.
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Values-based Advance Care Planning in Outpatient Oncology
A values-based advance care planning paradigm was acceptable to the vast majority of cancer outpatients but may increase distress, found a recent study.
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Code Status Conversations Often Lacking: Ethics ‘Great Resource’
Patients routinely are asked about code status upon admission, yet communication breakdowns too often occur. Expecting ethicists to sort out this important issue with every patient is, of course, unrealistic.
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Conflicts on Discharge Decision: Home or Skilled Nursing Facility?
Discharge to a skilled nursing facility is sometimes recommended in order to ensure continued independent community living for frail patients. Conflicting views as to what’s best for the patient sometimes raise ethical concerns.
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Students Unable to Identify Ethical Dilemmas
Faculty members in the Doctor of Nursing Practice program at the University of Portland noticed a concerning pattern: Graduate students were not able to identify ethical dilemmas.
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Advance Care Planning Video Feasible for Safety-net Settings
Using a video on advance care planning for diverse adults in safety-net, primary care settings is feasible, a recent study concluded.
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‘Can You Get the Patient to Consent?’ Ethics Role Misunderstood
This common scenario stems from a mistaken belief: That the primary role of ethicists is to convince patients, families, or surrogates to follow a recommendation.
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Long-term Opioid Use in Palliative Care: ‘Much Concern and Consternation’
Palliative care providers caring for patients suffering a heavy pain burden are torn between their calling to relieve suffering and the risk of opioid addiction.