Background No standard method exists to assess how many consults a healthcare ethics
consultation (HCEC) service should perform. To address this, we developed a method to …

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faqs/hospital-and-hospital-clinics/provisionof-care-tr/eatment-and-services-pc/000001669 …

Moral distress reflects often recurrent problems within a healthcare environment that impact
the quality and safety of patient care. Examples include inadequate staffing, lack of …

With the increasing professionalization of clinical ethics, some hospitals and health systems
utilize both ethics committees and professional clinical ethicists to address their ethics …

Al-Thaqafy, MS, A. El-Saed, YM Arabi, and HH Balkhy. 2014. Association of compliance of
ventilator bundle with incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia and ventilator utilization …

Benchmarks against which healthcare ethics consultation (HCEC) services can assess their
performance are needed. As first-generation benchmarks continue to be developed, it is the …

Despite an abundance of academic conferences, clinical ethicists lacked a forum to share
innovative practices with peers and to generate solutions to common challenges. Organizers …

Objectives Upon reading and considering the content of this chapter, the reader should be
able to: 1. Explain the foundations of surrogate decision-making for incapacitated …

Demonstrating value is an ongoing process and requirement for institutional survival for
ethics programs. Although our ethics program has significantly increased our ethics …

In their target article, Fox & Duke (2022) provide evidence that consult volumes vary based
on ethics staffing, leading to their conclusion that ethics consultation is an example of supply …