Handbook for health care ethics committees:
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1. Verfasser: Post, Linda Farber (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2007
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Preface -- - Introduction : The nature and functioning of ethics committees -- - [pt]. 1 - Curriculum for ethics committees -- - 1 - Ethical foundations of clinical practice -- - The role of ethics in clinical medicine -- - Ethics committees in the health care setting -- - Fundamental ethical principles -- - The role of culture, race, and ethnicity in health care -- - Conflicting obligations and ethical dilemmas -- - 2 - Decision making and decisional capacity in adults -- - Health care decisions and decision making -- - Decision-making capacity -- - Assessment and determination of capacity -- - Deciding for patients without capacity -- - 3 - Informed consent and refusal -- - Evolution of the doctrine of informed consent -- - Elements of informed consent and refusal -- - The nature of informed consent -- - Exceptions to the consent requirement -- - 4 - Truth telling : disclosure and confidentiality -- - Justifications -- - Disclosure -- - Disclosure of adverse outcomes and medical error -- - Confidentiality
5 - Special decision-making concerns of minors -- - Decisional capacity and minors -- - Consent for minors -- - Confidentiality and disclosure -- - Special problems of the adolescent alone -- - 6 - End-of-life issues -- - Decision making at the end of life -- - Defining death -- - Advance health care planning -- - Goals of care at the end of life -- - Forgoing life-sustaining treatment -- - Protecting patients from treatment -- - Rejection of recommended treatment and requests to "do everything" -- - Medical futility -- - 7 - Palliation -- - From caring to curing and back again -- - The experience of and response to pain -- - The moral imperative to relieve pain -- - Physician-assisted suicide -- - 8 - Justice, access to care, and organizational ethics -- - Access to health care in the United States -- - A right to health care? -- - Theories of justice -- - Rationing -- - Health care organization ethics -- - [pt]. 2 - Clinical ethics consultation -- - 9 - Approaches to ethics consultation - Kenneth A. Berkowitz - and - Nancy Neveloff Dubler -- - Three models of ethics consultation -- - Critical success factors for ethics consultation services -- - Policy -- - Two approaches to clinical ethics consultation -- - 10 - Sample clinical cases -- - Advance directives -- - Autonomy in tension with best interest -- - Confidentiality -- - Decisional capacity -- - Disclosure and truth telling -- - End-of-life care -- - Forgoing life-sustaining treatment -- - Goals of care -- - Informed consent and refusal -- - Medical futility -- - Parental decision making -- - Surrogate decision making
[pt.] 3 - White papers, memoranda, guidelines, and protocols -- - Allocating critical care resources : keeping the teeth in ICU triage - Jack Kilcullen -- - Justice and access to unreimbursed therapies -- - Guidelines for transferring patients between services -- - Decision-making protocol for the patient alone -- - [pt]. 4 - Sample policies and procedures -- - Access to bioethics consultation -- - Advance directives -- - Determination of brain death -- - Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders -- - Forgoing life-extending treatment -- - [pt]. 5 - Institutional code of ethics -- - [pt]. 6 - Key legal cases in bioethics -- - Informed consent -- - Health care decision making -- - State action to protect public health -- - Confidentiality -- - Medical decision making for minors -- - Reproductive rights -- - Health care reimbursement -- - [pt]. 7 - An ethics committee meeting -- - Index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 327 p.)
ISBN:0801895944
9780801895944

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