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Data on Hospital Use at End of Life Suggest Less Burdensome Care
ICU use in the last 30 days of life remains high but is not increasing, according to a recent study.
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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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Ethical Challenges of Paying Addicted Participants
Financial compensation and HIV/HCV testing elicited trust and motivated an addicted population to participate in research, according to the authors of a recent report examining the ethical issues that can arise when intravenous drug addicts are paid for their research participation.
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NIH Marshalling Data Defenses for All of Us Project
In a disarmingly frank lecture in an ethics training course at the National Institutes of Health, a leader of the landmark All of Us project shared some of the concerns that come with the immense responsibility of collecting data on 1 million people.
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Ethics of Patient Access to Experimental Treatments
Partner universities will build a national framework for more efficient, consistent, and widespread use of the program and help more hospitals offer experimental options to their patients.
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Mobile Devices Used by Unregulated Researchers
A new National Institutes of Health-funded project, Mobile ELSI, is developing recommendations for the ethical conduct of this emerging research.
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Study Sheds Light on Why Nurses Want Ethics Consults
A recent analysis of nursing requests for clinical ethics consultations revealed key concerns prompting the requests — and also what nurses felt was most important about the consults.
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Family Important Influencer on Care Preferences
An analysis of 57 articles indicates that care preferences are influenced by a complex interaction of family, individual, and illness factors.
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Spiritual Self-care Linked to Higher Surrogate Confidence
There is increasing focus on finding ways to help patients and their families prepare for the surrogate role much earlier so that the end of life is not as traumatic for all concerned.
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Nurse-facilitated Discussion Decreases Surrogate Stress
Surrogates reported less stress and greater satisfaction after a nurse-directed discussion on end-of-life preferences, a recent study found.