Improving health outcomes through patient-centered care is one way to build value for stakeholders in health care.

Fostering transgender patients’ sense of agency should be a clinical and ethical priority.

Commentary by Aveena Kochar, MD, and Alia Chisty, MS, MD Co-creative teams can overcome conflict by drawing on quality improvement principles.

How information is provided can change a choice. Decision science helps reveal affective forecasting errors and can generate choices congruent with patients’ and families’ values.

Decision making in health care demands that we balance multiple considerations, like quality of life, statistics, and how different options could affect others. Dr Brian Zikmund-Fisher shares his own experience as a patient and explains how decision science can help us navigate ethically complex health decisions.  

Transnational monitoring efforts should focus on safety, defining standard of care, and promoting just access to innovation.

AI might improve patient-clinician relationships, but various underlying assumptions will need to be addressed to bring these potential benefits to fruition.

Government-supported review and safety monitoring is needed for dietary supplements’ use in the care of patients with mental illness.

Dr Katherine Wu joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Erik Messamore: “Reimagining Roles of Dietary Supplements in Psychiatric Care.”

Chaplains can mediate between physicians and families by clarifying religious issues for physicians, who can then present treatment options informed by a patient’s priorities. Ideally, family and religious values and a physician’s judgment should work together to inform decision making.