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Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees

Post, L
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Edition: 3rd
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1-4214-4235-3 (1421442353)
ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-4235-8 (9781421442358)
Format: Handbook
Binding: E E Book + ProQuest Ebook Central
Copyright: 2021
Publish Date: 11/21
Weight: 0.00 Lbs.
Subject Class: M-E (Medical Ethics)
Return Policy: Non-Returnable.
   
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Class Specifications
Discipline: Practice Med
Subject Definition: Ethics Committees, Clincial; Bioethical Issues
NLM Class: WB 60
LC Class: R725.3
Abstract: Among the most effective and increasingly valued resources in the health care decision-making process is the institutional ethics committee. The Joint Commission (TJC) accredits and certifies more than 19,000 health care organizations in the United States, including hospitals, nursing homes, and home care agencies. As a condition of accreditation, TJC requires health care organizations to have available a standing multidisciplinary ethics committee, composed of physicians, nurses, attorneys, ethicists, administrators, and interested lay citizens. Many of these committees are well meaning but may lack the information, experience, skills, and formal background in bioethics needed to effectively address the range and complexity of the ethical issues that arise in clinical and organizational settings. Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees was conceived in 2007 to address the myriad responsibilities assumed by ethics committees. Using sample cases and accessible language, Linda Farber Post and Jeffrey Blustein explored applied bioethics, including informed consent and refusal, decision making and decisional capacity, truth telling, care at the beginning and end of life, palliation, justice in and access to health care services, and organizational ethics. In the third edition, Post and Blustein have thoroughly updated and reorganized the content and expanded the scope of the material, with special attention to changes in the health care landscape since the second edition was published in 2015. They also focus on communication between and among patients, care providers, and families, the demands of professionalism, the essential role that ethics committees can and should play, and how their effectiveness and value can be assessed. An entirely new chapter examines research ethics. The book also addresses the challenging ethical issues raised by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This guide remains an essential resource for all health care ethics committee and their members.
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