Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees

Post, Linda Farber, Blustein, Jeffrey

ISBN 10: 1421416573 / ISBN 13: 9781421416571

Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015

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<p><b>How can dedicated ethics committees members fulfill their complex roles as moral analysts, policy reviewers, and clinical consultants?</b></p><p>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. Each organization must have a standing health care ethics committee to maintain its status. These interdisciplinary committees are composed of physicians, nurses, attorneys, ethicists, administrators, and interested citizens. Their main function is to review and provide resolutions for specific, individual patient care problems. Many of these committees are well meaning but may lack the information, experience, skills, and formal background in bioethics needed to adequately negotiate the complex ethical issues that arise in clinical and organizational settings.</p><p><i>Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees</i> was the first book of its kind to address the myriad responsibilities faced by ethics committees, including education, case consultation, and policy development. Adopting an accessible tone and using a case study format, the authors explore serious issues involving informed consent and refusal, decision making and decisional capacity, truth telling, the end of life, palliative care, justice in and access to health care services, and organizational ethics.</p><p>The authors have thoroughly updated the content and expanded their focus in the second edition to include ethics committees in other clinical settings, such as long-term care facilities, small community hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and hospices. They have added three new chapters that address reproduction, disability, and the special needs of the elder population, and they provide additional specialized policies and procedures on the book’s website. This guide is an essential resource for all health care ethics committee members.</p>

Informazioni sull?autore: <p><b>Linda Farber Post</b> is the director of bioethics at Hackensack University Medical Center and an associate professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and St. George's University School of Medicine. <b>Jeffrey Blustein</b> is the Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics and a professor of philosophy at the City College of New York.</p>

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Titolo: Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees
Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2015
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Fine
Edizione: seconda edizione