Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees

Name: Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees
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ISBN: 9780801884481

ISBN-10: 0801884489

ISBN-13: 9780801884481

Edition: 2007

Authors: Linda Farber Post, Jeffrey Blustein, Nancy Neveloff Dubler

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Hospitals, nursing homes, and home care agencies seeking approval by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) must have a standing mechanism to address ethical issues. Most organizations have chosen to satisfy this with an interdisciplinary ethics committee. The best of these committees are knowledgeable, creative, and effective resources in their institutions. Many are well meaning but lack the information, experience, and skills to negotiate adequately the complex ethical issues that arise in clinical and organizational settings. Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees is the first resource to address the myriad responsibilities that ethics…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 11/28/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Introduction : the nature and functioning of ethics committees




Curriculum for ethics committees



Ethical foundations of clinical practice



Decision making and decisional capacity in adults



Informed consent and refusal



Truth telling : disclosure and confidentiality



Special decision-making concerns of minors



End-of-life issues



Palliation



Justice, access to care, and organizational ethics



Clinical ethics consultation



Approaches to ethics consultation




Sample clinical cases



White papers, memoranda, guidelines, and protocols


Allocating critical care resources : keeping the teeth in ICU triage




Sample policies and procedures



Institutional code of ethics



Key legal cases in bioethics



An ethics committee meeting