AMA Journal of Ethics

Long-acting injectables powerfully augment HIV care, but broad acceptance and uptake could be compromised by what we know about experiences with antipsychotics.

Restraint can facilitate freedom for patients with traumatic brain injuries under some conditions.

Ethical dimensions of risk management are illuminated in AMA Code content on discharge planning.

Shared decision making is complex with patients who are adolescents, whose relational autonomy is still emerging.

Dr Laura Guidry-Grimes helps us consider whether and which decisions can be shared with people experiencing mental illnesses.

Shared decision making is practically difficult to implement in mental health practice but remains an ethical ideal for motivating therapeutic capacity.

A deliberative approach to responding to needs and vulnerabilities of unrepresented patients can help make the most of having too little information.

Physicians, committees, and guardians all make decisions for unrepresented patients in the US. This article considers a “tiered” approach as an alternative.

A UPAC is an alternative to engaging a guardianship court appointment process or to using physicians or ethics committees as decision makers.

When patients are unable to express their wishes and do not have surrogates or advance directives, which and whose values should inform decision making for them? We discuss ethical complexities of caring for unrepresented patients.