Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Case and Commentary Dec 2020 How Should Clinicians Respond When Patients’ Loved Ones Do Not See “Brain Death” as Death? Rabbi Jason Weiner, DBioethics and Rabbi Charles Sheer, MA, BCC Religious and cultural values can conflict with clinical standard practice and law. Read in: English AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(12):E995-1003. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.995. Medical Education Dec 2020 How Educators Can Help Prevent False Brain Death Diagnoses Farah Fourcand, MD and Diana M. Barratt, MD, MPH For many physicians, lack of understanding about brain death leads to confusion and muddles interactions with patients’ loved ones at the end of life. Read in: English AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(12):E1010-1018. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1010. Health Law Dec 2020 Reexamining the Flawed Legal Basis of the “Dead Donor Rule” as a Foundation for Organ Donation Policy Scott J. Schweikart, JD, MBE The DDR requires organ donors to be dead according to legal criteria prior to organ removal, and it’s rooted in fears of civil and criminal liability. Read in: English AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(12):E1019-1024. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1019. Medicine and Society Feb 2016 Organ Donation as a Collective Action Problem: Ethical Considerations and Implications for Practice Keren Ladin, PhD, MSc Although organ donation conflicts with self-interest, because donation is vital to the community, interventions to increase it are ethically justified. Read in: English AMA J Ethics. 2016; 18(2):156-162. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.18.2.msoc1-1602. Medicine and Society Feb 2021 Should Clinical Guidelines Incorporate Cost Pathways for Persons With Financial Hardship? David Goldberg, MD Standard treatment of hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes includes a pathway when “cost is a major issue.” Whether it’s just to do so remains unclear. Read in: English AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(2):E175-182. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.175. Viewpoint Jan 2022 How Medical-Dental EHR Integration Can Improve Diabetes Care Neel Shimpi, BDS, MM, PhD, Elizabeth Buchanan, PhD, and Amit Acharya, BDS, MS, PhD Poor oral health has been neglected as a public health threat, despite recognition as “epidemic” in scale by the US Office of the Surgeon General. Read in: English AMA J Ethics. 2022; 24(1):E99-105. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.99. History of Medicine Nov 2017 How Co-Creation Helped Address Hierarchy, Overwhelmed Patients, and Conflicts of Interest in Health Care Quality and Safety Sigal Israilov and Hyung J. Cho, MD Co-creative health systems planning requires engaging patients and learning from peers. Read in: English AMA J Ethics. 2017; 19(11):1139-1145. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.11.mhst1-1711. Policy Forum Feb 2016 Regulations’ Impact on Donor and Recipient Selection for Liver Transplantation: How Should Outcomes be Measured and MELD Exception Scores be Considered? Joel T. Adler, MD, MPH and David A. Axelrod, MD, MBA Standards for posttransplant graft/survival rates do not reward transplant centers for performing riskier transplants to increase population benefit. Read in: English AMA J Ethics. 2016; 18(2):133-142. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.18.2.pfor1-1602. Viewpoint Feb 2016 Can Social Media Help Increase the Organ Supply While Avoiding Exploitation and Trafficking? Gowri Kabbur Social media platforms and organizational websites that facilitate organ procurement should respect potential donors’ autonomy and confidentiality. Read in: English AMA J Ethics. 2016; 18(2):115-121. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.18.2.conl1-1602. AMA Code Says Feb 2016 AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Relevant to Organ Transplantation and Procurement Bette-Jane Crigger, PhD The AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ opinions related to organ donors’ informed, voluntary decisions and equitable distribution of organs and tissues. Read in: English AMA J Ethics. 2016; 18(2):122-125. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.2.coet1-1602. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
Case and Commentary Dec 2020 How Should Clinicians Respond When Patients’ Loved Ones Do Not See “Brain Death” as Death? Rabbi Jason Weiner, DBioethics and Rabbi Charles Sheer, MA, BCC Religious and cultural values can conflict with clinical standard practice and law. Read in: English AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(12):E995-1003. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.995.
Medical Education Dec 2020 How Educators Can Help Prevent False Brain Death Diagnoses Farah Fourcand, MD and Diana M. Barratt, MD, MPH For many physicians, lack of understanding about brain death leads to confusion and muddles interactions with patients’ loved ones at the end of life. Read in: English AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(12):E1010-1018. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1010.
Health Law Dec 2020 Reexamining the Flawed Legal Basis of the “Dead Donor Rule” as a Foundation for Organ Donation Policy Scott J. Schweikart, JD, MBE The DDR requires organ donors to be dead according to legal criteria prior to organ removal, and it’s rooted in fears of civil and criminal liability. Read in: English AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(12):E1019-1024. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1019.
Medicine and Society Feb 2016 Organ Donation as a Collective Action Problem: Ethical Considerations and Implications for Practice Keren Ladin, PhD, MSc Although organ donation conflicts with self-interest, because donation is vital to the community, interventions to increase it are ethically justified. Read in: English AMA J Ethics. 2016; 18(2):156-162. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.18.2.msoc1-1602.
Medicine and Society Feb 2021 Should Clinical Guidelines Incorporate Cost Pathways for Persons With Financial Hardship? David Goldberg, MD Standard treatment of hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes includes a pathway when “cost is a major issue.” Whether it’s just to do so remains unclear. Read in: English AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(2):E175-182. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.175.
Viewpoint Jan 2022 How Medical-Dental EHR Integration Can Improve Diabetes Care Neel Shimpi, BDS, MM, PhD, Elizabeth Buchanan, PhD, and Amit Acharya, BDS, MS, PhD Poor oral health has been neglected as a public health threat, despite recognition as “epidemic” in scale by the US Office of the Surgeon General. Read in: English AMA J Ethics. 2022; 24(1):E99-105. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.99.
History of Medicine Nov 2017 How Co-Creation Helped Address Hierarchy, Overwhelmed Patients, and Conflicts of Interest in Health Care Quality and Safety Sigal Israilov and Hyung J. Cho, MD Co-creative health systems planning requires engaging patients and learning from peers. Read in: English AMA J Ethics. 2017; 19(11):1139-1145. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.11.mhst1-1711.
Policy Forum Feb 2016 Regulations’ Impact on Donor and Recipient Selection for Liver Transplantation: How Should Outcomes be Measured and MELD Exception Scores be Considered? Joel T. Adler, MD, MPH and David A. Axelrod, MD, MBA Standards for posttransplant graft/survival rates do not reward transplant centers for performing riskier transplants to increase population benefit. Read in: English AMA J Ethics. 2016; 18(2):133-142. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.18.2.pfor1-1602.
Viewpoint Feb 2016 Can Social Media Help Increase the Organ Supply While Avoiding Exploitation and Trafficking? Gowri Kabbur Social media platforms and organizational websites that facilitate organ procurement should respect potential donors’ autonomy and confidentiality. Read in: English AMA J Ethics. 2016; 18(2):115-121. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.18.2.conl1-1602.
AMA Code Says Feb 2016 AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Relevant to Organ Transplantation and Procurement Bette-Jane Crigger, PhD The AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ opinions related to organ donors’ informed, voluntary decisions and equitable distribution of organs and tissues. Read in: English AMA J Ethics. 2016; 18(2):122-125. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.2.coet1-1602.