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Feb 2021

Fomento de la equidad en salud a través de un enfoque que evite los juicios de valor y contextualice la atención

Saul J. Weiner, MD

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  • cscm1-2401
    Case and Commentary
    Jan 2024

    How Should We Approach Faculty Who Create Hostile Learning Environments for Underrepresented Students and Trainees?

    J. Corey Williams, MD, MA, Ashley Andreou, MD, MPH, and Susan M. Cheng, EdLD, MPP
    Faculty who lack skill in addressing negative bias in learning environments can erode safety, especially among underrepresented students, trainees, and patients.
    AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(1):E6-11. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.6.
  • cscm3-2312
    Case and Commentary
    Dec 2023

    When, If Ever, Is It Appropriate to Regard a Patient as “Too Medically Complex” for One Inpatient Service, But Not Another?

    David Marcus, MD, HEC-C
    Constraints on hospitalists and surgeons and restricted orthopedic admission criteria can exacerbate patients’ distress that comes from clinicians’ disagreements.
    AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(12):E873-877. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.873.
  • cscm4-2312
    Case and Commentary
    Dec 2023

    How Should Technology-Dependent Patients’ Care Be Managed Collaboratively to Avoid Turfing?

    Emma Cooke, MD, MA and Holland Kaplan, MD, HEC-C
    Technology-dependent inpatients are commonly turfed, either between general services or from subspecialty to general services.
    AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(12):E878-884. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.878.
  • cscm2-2312
    Case and Commentary
    Dec 2023

    When and How Should Clinicians View Discharge Planning as Part of a Patient’s Care Continuum?

    Martha Ward, MD
    Safe discharge planning and execution require linkage to follow-up, patient engagement, and multidisciplinary teamwork.
    AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(12):E866-872. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.866.
  • cscm1-2312
    Case and Commentary
    Dec 2023

    Should Physicians Be Able to Refuse to Care for Patients Insured by Medicare?

    Kaarkuzhali B. Krishnamurthy, MD, MBE, HEC-C
    This commentary on a case considers whether and to what extent refusal to care for patients insured by Medicare is a form of turfing.
    AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(12):E861-865. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.861.
  • cscm2-2311
    Case and Commentary
    Nov 2023

    How Should Organizations and Clinicians Help Marginalized Patients Manage Loneliness as a Harm of Climate Change?

    Lisa Fuller, PhD

    Individualistic approaches to the collective problem of climate change are ethically inadequate. 

    AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(11):E802-808. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.802.
  • cscm1-2311
    Case and Commentary
    Nov 2023

    What Are “Social Prescriptions” and How Should They Be Integrated Into Care Plans?

    Katrina Hough, Ashwin A. Kotwal, MD, MS, Cynthia Boyd, MD, MPH, Soe Han Tha, and Carla Perissinotto, MD, MHS

    Health consequences of social isolation and loneliness include worse morbidity and mortality, and “social prescribing” is one way to intervene.

    AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(11):E795-801. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.795.
  • cscm1-2310
    Case and Commentary
    Oct 2023

    Should Antipsychotics’ Risks Be Accepted by Clinicians on Behalf of Patients to Achieve Benefits of Mitigating Older Adults’ Behavioral Symptoms in Short-Staffed Units?

    Alex Rollo, MD, Jeena Kar, DO, Uma Suryadevara, MD, and Mary Camp, MD

    This commentary considers how to manage agitation in patients with dementia.

    AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(10):E725-732. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.725.
  • cscm2-2310
    Case and Commentary
    Oct 2023

    What Should Be the Scope of Long-Term Care Organizations’ Obligations to Offer Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services to Patients?

    Darlon Jan, MD, Azziza Bankole, MD, and Mamta Sapra, MBBS

    Despite legal protections for services for patients with LEP, some places have limited capacity to offer them.

    AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(10):E733-739. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.733.
  • cscm3-2310
    Case and Commentary
    Oct 2023

    According to Which Criteria Should Telemental Health Be Deemed Elder Inclusive?

    Joseph O. Aderemi, MD and Esther Akinyemi, MD

    Telehealth offers access and quality opportunities for some patients with mental illness.

    AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(10):E740-744. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.740.

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