Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Policy Forum Feb 2022 How Should Tactical Clinicians Help Make Use of Force More Just? David Callaway, MD and Faroukh Mehkri, DO A public health approach to violence is required to help 21st-century policing evolve. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(2):E133-139. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.133. Policy Forum Feb 2022 How Should Exposure Risk to Tactical Personnel Be Balanced Against Clinical and Ethical Rescue Demand? Mollie V. Williams, MD, MPH and Olaitan Ajisafe, MD, PharmD Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive device mass casualty incidents mean patients require prehospital and hospital care. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(2):E140-144. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.140. Policy Forum Feb 2022 Why Care-Based, Not Carceral, Approaches to Suspects With Mental Illness Is Key to Whether We Trust Professional or State Authority Ever Again Frederic G. Reamer, PhD Police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, and parole boards look to reform work with patients. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(2):E145-149. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.145. Policy Forum Mar 2023 What Should Be Clinicians’ Roles in Regulatory Assessment of Prospective Interventions’ Risks of Exacerbating Inequity? Anushka Bhaskar and Daniel Carpenter, PhD When regulatory decisions express overconfidence, one risk is that the costliness or misinformation will exacerbate health inequity. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(3):E204-209. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.204. Policy Forum Nov 2022 If Patients Don’t Use Available Health Service Pricing Information, Is Transparency Still Important? Christopher Whaley, PhD and Austin Frakt, PhD Online tools intended to make health care purchasing resemble “consumerism” have had little effect on improving transparency for patients. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(11):E1056-1062. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.1056. Policy Forum Nov 2022 Informed Consent as a Means of Acknowledging and Avoiding Financial Toxicity as Iatrogenic Harm Kevin Schulman, MD and Barak Richman, PhD, JD Negative health consequences from costly care are referred to as financial toxicity and should be included in informed consent discussions. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(11):E1063-1068. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.1063. Policy Forum Nov 2022 Necessity for and Limitations of Price Transparency in American Health Care Harold A. Pollack, PhD, MPP More transparent pricing would allow patients and families to make better decisions, but there are limitations to how reliably it promotes efficiency and market discipline. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(11):E1069-1074. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.1069. Policy Forum Sep 2022 Roles of Environmental Services Workers’ Wages and Status in Patient Safety David Sine, DBioethics and Lloyd Duplechan This article offers a risk management standpoint on environmental services as a mission-critical function of any health care organization. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(9):E876-882. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.876. Policy Forum Nov 2021 How Medicaid and States Could Better Meet Health Needs of Persons Experiencing Homelessness Sana Charania Access to shelter can improve health outcomes for individuals experiencing homelessness and reduce overall health costs. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(11):E875-880. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.875. Policy Forum Oct 2023 How Should We Address Warehousing Persons With Serious Mental Illness in Nursing Homes? Ari Ne’eman This article suggests how to better identify older adults with mental illness at risk for placement that won’t meet their needs. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(10):E758-764. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.758. Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Current page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Next page Next › Last page Last »
Policy Forum Feb 2022 How Should Tactical Clinicians Help Make Use of Force More Just? David Callaway, MD and Faroukh Mehkri, DO A public health approach to violence is required to help 21st-century policing evolve. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(2):E133-139. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.133.
Policy Forum Feb 2022 How Should Exposure Risk to Tactical Personnel Be Balanced Against Clinical and Ethical Rescue Demand? Mollie V. Williams, MD, MPH and Olaitan Ajisafe, MD, PharmD Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive device mass casualty incidents mean patients require prehospital and hospital care. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(2):E140-144. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.140.
Policy Forum Feb 2022 Why Care-Based, Not Carceral, Approaches to Suspects With Mental Illness Is Key to Whether We Trust Professional or State Authority Ever Again Frederic G. Reamer, PhD Police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, and parole boards look to reform work with patients. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(2):E145-149. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.145.
Policy Forum Mar 2023 What Should Be Clinicians’ Roles in Regulatory Assessment of Prospective Interventions’ Risks of Exacerbating Inequity? Anushka Bhaskar and Daniel Carpenter, PhD When regulatory decisions express overconfidence, one risk is that the costliness or misinformation will exacerbate health inequity. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(3):E204-209. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.204.
Policy Forum Nov 2022 If Patients Don’t Use Available Health Service Pricing Information, Is Transparency Still Important? Christopher Whaley, PhD and Austin Frakt, PhD Online tools intended to make health care purchasing resemble “consumerism” have had little effect on improving transparency for patients. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(11):E1056-1062. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.1056.
Policy Forum Nov 2022 Informed Consent as a Means of Acknowledging and Avoiding Financial Toxicity as Iatrogenic Harm Kevin Schulman, MD and Barak Richman, PhD, JD Negative health consequences from costly care are referred to as financial toxicity and should be included in informed consent discussions. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(11):E1063-1068. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.1063.
Policy Forum Nov 2022 Necessity for and Limitations of Price Transparency in American Health Care Harold A. Pollack, PhD, MPP More transparent pricing would allow patients and families to make better decisions, but there are limitations to how reliably it promotes efficiency and market discipline. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(11):E1069-1074. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.1069.
Policy Forum Sep 2022 Roles of Environmental Services Workers’ Wages and Status in Patient Safety David Sine, DBioethics and Lloyd Duplechan This article offers a risk management standpoint on environmental services as a mission-critical function of any health care organization. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(9):E876-882. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.876.
Policy Forum Nov 2021 How Medicaid and States Could Better Meet Health Needs of Persons Experiencing Homelessness Sana Charania Access to shelter can improve health outcomes for individuals experiencing homelessness and reduce overall health costs. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(11):E875-880. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.875.
Policy Forum Oct 2023 How Should We Address Warehousing Persons With Serious Mental Illness in Nursing Homes? Ari Ne’eman This article suggests how to better identify older adults with mental illness at risk for placement that won’t meet their needs. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(10):E758-764. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.758.