Modern medical treatments and health care delivery systems can improve length and quality of life, but may only increase suffering and prolong dying if not used properly.2. Medical ethics can help us understand the importance of patient rights in medical research and choices in medical care and ...
Background: Training in medical ethics aims to educate health care professionals in dealing with daily care ethical issues. To guarantee quality of life and spiritual and emotional support, palliative care professionals have to develop ethical and relational skills. We propose the implementation and ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, global healthcare systems faced unprecedented challenges, with a lack of resources and suboptimal patient care emerging as primary concerns. Methods Our research, using a comprehensive 24-item electronic questionnaire, “Reflections on the Provision of Healthcare during the...
Angel has resided at the Albany long-term care facility for the last 4 years. Within the last 3 years she has been hospitalized 11 times and received 3 maj... AA Foederer - 《Journal of Nursing Law》 被引量: 5发表: 2007年 Ethical Problems in Emergency Medicine This book is designed ...
It is notable that Rascher uses the term ‘professional criminals’, although the only ‘crime’ committed by the majority of the people in the concentration camps was that they had been born into a certain ethnic minority, like Jews and Gypsies, or that they were political dissidents. Apart...
For “What I Know,” three themes were identified: the “Hospice Palliative Care Act”, the “Patient Autonomy Act”, and advance medical directives. For “What I Want to Know,” three themes and eight subthemes were identified; the themes included medical decision-making, ethics and laws, ...
Medical Ethics Background Palliative care is increasingly gaining importance in Austria, and since 2022, two new laws that provide momentum for the expansion of palliative care have been in effect. On the one hand, the Hospice and Palliative Fund Act (Hospiz- und Palliativfondsgesetz) regulates ...
Separate ordinal regression analyses were performed for the core science and clinical components. All regression models consisted of a random effects term for student, with course year as a fixed effect (explanatory factor variable). Year of entry and gender were included as fixed effects (...
cause far more harm than good and/or not produce any significant benefits for a unique patient during a specific medical situation and at a particular point in time during that specific medical situation. An alternative term for medical futility employed by some is amedically inappropriatetreatment....
An accurate understanding of the current state of end-of-life care is important for healthcare planning. The objectives of this study were to examine the trajectories of end-of-life medical and long-term care expenditures and associated factors. This was