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Study: COPD Symptom Burden Often Goes Unrecognized
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease often experience symptom burden and social isolation that is underappreciated by clinicians, are much more likely than lung cancer patients to die in hospital than at home, and they often lack palliative care, found a recent study.
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‘We Want Everything Possible Done for Mom’
Joanne Lynn, MD, a Washington, DC-based geriatrician and director of the Center for Elder Care and Advanced Illness at Altarum Institute, has dedicated her career to finding ways to improve health and healthcare at a sustainable cost. Lynn tells Medical Ethics Advisor how hospitals can achieve ethical end-of-life care.
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New Resuscitation Policy: It’s Not Offered Unless Clinically Indicated
Ethicists at University of Virginia helped develop a new resuscitation policy stating that patients or surrogates can accept or refuse offered treatment, and that the healthcare team should not offer treatments unless clinically indicated.
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Patients Who Refuse Discharge Are ‘Disaster in the Making’
Patients refusing to leave the hospital for weeks, or even months — despite being medically cleared for discharge — are a growing problem, according to ethicists.
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The Big Chill: IRB Critic Says Changes Fall Short
IRB Advisor asked Zachary M. Schrag, PhD, to weigh in on his past concerns in light of the revised changes to the Common Rule.
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Social Research Exemptions and Common Rule: It’s Complicated
Social scientists, behavioral researchers, and their respective IRBs find themselves in the midst of a somewhat complicated debate about how and to what extent the Common Rule changes affect or exempt oversight of their endeavors by the Office of Human Research Protections.
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Impossible-to-comprehend Forms ‘Make a Sham of Informed Consent’
Long sentences, large paragraphs, technical language, and multisyllabic words all contribute to reading and comprehension difficulties for informed consent forms, found a recent study.
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Very Few Patients Address ICDs in Advance Care Planning
Some clinicians and patients view deactivation of implantable cardiac devices as morally different from the withdrawal of other life-sustaining interventions, yet very few people address this in advance care planning.
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Are Hospital Billing Practices Unethical? Chargemaster Still Used To Boost Revenue
U.S. hospitals still are using chargemaster markups to maximize revenues, found a recent study.
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New Report on Research Integrity: Institutions Also Play a Role
Institutions and environments — not only individual researchers — play an important role in supporting scientific integrity, stresses a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.