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Data Show Mistreatment of Medical Students Is Common
It is hard to say if the problem is worse, or if residents are just reporting it more. Regardless, this is a longstanding problem, but few effective solutions or prevention tactics have been implemented.
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Unnecessary Restraint and Seclusion of Psychiatric Patients Is Ethical Concern
Violation of patient autonomy and the possibility of harming people (physically or psychologically) are major ethical concerns. But there are no recommendations quantifying what is considered an unacceptably high rate of seclusion or restraint. Without such guidelines, outlier facilities may not even realize their practices are outside the norm.
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Many Ethics Services Need Better Information on Volume
Researchers found inconsistencies in the way ethics consult volume was reported, which made estimates of growth over time inaccurate. These investigators created a methodology to allow many more factors to be weighed, which could lead to a more accurate estimate of how many consults ethics services should be performing.
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Lack of Ethical Leadership Can Be Source of Moral Distress
Ethical leadership requires perspectives of all stakeholders be considered. If managers do not actively encourage staff to offer input, people are going to be reluctant or unwilling to voice concerns.
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Race Disparities Identified in End-of-Life Care
Minority patients receive more aggressive end-of-life interventions than white patients, according to the authors of a recent study. The answer has to do, in part, with the history of maltreatment of vulnerable populations. Some minority patients, or their family members, have been the recipients of substandard medical care.
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The Wide Variability in Ethics Consult Mandates
Only half of hospitals have put any policies in place mandating ethics consults in certain situations, according to a recent analysis. These policies share few common features.
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Study: Few Black Adults Taking Proper Medicine for Difficult-to-Treat Hypertension
Black patients may not receive the right medications or proper lifestyle counseling.
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Sweeping Patient Safety Action Plan Aims for ‘Foundational Change’
More than two dozen stakeholders created a framework to eliminate preventable medical harm.
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Does BAMI Spell the End for Cell-Based Therapy After Acute Myocardial Infarction?
Investigators tested the mortality benefit of intracoronary bone marrow cells in patients with successfully reperfused acute myocardial infarction. They observed no effect on mortality.
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Pulmonary Artery Denervation: A Promising Treatment Option for CTEPH
A trial of patients with residual chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension following pulmonary endarterectomy showed pulmonary artery denervation is superior to medical management with riociguat.