Resolving ethical dilemmas : a guide for clinicians / Bernard Lo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lo, Bernard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics, Clinical.

Clinical Decision-Making--ethics.

Medical ethics.

Medical Subjects:

Ethics, Clinical.

Clinical Decision-Making--ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 389 pages)

Edition:

6th ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : Wolters Kluwer Health, [2020]

Summary:

A Guide for Clinicians helps residents, students, and practitioners work through these and many more common and challenging ethical questions that affect patient care. The 6th Edition reflects important changes in medicine and healthcare policy and and provides additional clarity to complex concepts. Offering practical, real-world advice, it helps you think through and resolve difficult cases, prompting thoughtful, well-reasoned answers to the question of "What do I do in this situation?" -Begins with a concise discussion of clinical ethics that provides background information essential to understanding key ethical issues. - Explores a wide range of real-world ethical dilemmas, each accompanied by expert guidance on salient issues and how to approach them. - Provides new insights on cases related to oncology, palliative care, family medicine, clinical practice guidelines, genetic testing, the electronic health record, opioid prescriptions, evidence-based medicine, ambulatory care, quality improvement, and advance care planning. - Helps you work thorough challenges such as how to handle changes arising from the Affordable Care Act, how to manage treatment when it no longer works for the patient.

Contents:

Section I: Fundamentals of Clinical ethics

Section 2: Shared decision making

Section 3: Decisions about life sustaining interventions

Section IV: Doctor patient relationship

Section V: Conflicts of interest

Section VI: Ethical issues in clinical specialties.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781975142155

1975142152

9781975140137

1975140133

OCLC:

1441721131