AMA Journal of Ethics^®

The Strategic National Stockpile is a national system maintained by the US federal government to deliver medical supplies during emergencies, and it needs administrative changes.

Little attention has been given to roles played by human trafficking in health care organizations’ supply chains of key equipment, such as hand sanitizers and gloves.

Recent increases in the frequency of shortages require more rationing by clinicians.

Dr Amy B. Cadwallader joins Ethics Talk to discuss how critical medicine supply chains are identified and secured.

Reliable supply of quality-assured medicines is hard to maintain in refugee camps in low- and middle-income countries with conflict zones.

This commentary examines prevention policies that overly rely on liberty restrictions imposed by designs of inpatient psychiatric units’ structures and spaces.

Architect Stefan Lundin joins Ethics Talk to discuss how the design of mental health facilities contributes to safety and to patient healing.

Inpatient psychiatric units should be therapeutic environments that support dignity and recovery.

Iatrogenic harms of so-called “zero-risk” approaches must be balanced against promoting patients’ goals of care.

Examining modern design trends in historical context is more clinically and ethically important than ever.