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Medicine
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Ethics
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Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees
Post, Linda Farber
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Publisher: John Hopkins University Press Dimensions: 10.0 x 0.8 x 7.0 in
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Synopsis:
The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) requires as a condition of accreditation that every health care institution hospital, nursing home, or home care agency have a standing mechanism to address ethical issues. Most organizations have chosen to fulfill this requirement 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 knowledge, experience, and skills to adequately negotiate the complex ethical issues that arise in clinical and organizational settings. Ethics committees need information, tools, and guidance to act responsibly and productively in the contemporary world of health care policy and delivery. Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees is the first resource designed expressly to address the range of work performed by ethics committees as part of their multiple responsibilities, including education, case consultation, and policy development. It begins with an eight-chapter curriculum that reviews the content of contemporary health care bioethics. Following an opening chapter on the ethical foundations of clinical practice, each subsequent chapter focuses on a set of ethical issues that commonly arise in the clinical setting. Through case studies, the authors explore issues such as informed consent and refusal, decision making and decisional capacity, truth telling, decision-making concerns of minors, end-of-life issues, palliation, justice and access, and organizational ethics. They offer sample policies and procedures, draft guidelines and protocols, and key legal cases. Providing both a strong theoretical foundation and practical applications, this handbook will be essential reading for every member of a health care ethics committee.
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