Ethics, risk, and patient-centered care: How collaboration between clinical ethicists and risk management leads to respectful patient care
✍ Scribed by David M. Sine; Virginia A. Sharpe
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 343 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1074-4797
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Patient‐centered care is driven in part by the ethical principle of autonomy and considers patients' cultural traditions, personal preferences, values, family situations, and lifestyles. Patient decision‐making capacity, surrogate decision making with or in the absence of a patient's advance directive, and the right to refuse treatment are three patient‐care issues that are central to the work done by both the risk manager and the clinical ethicist that have strong relevance to patient‐centered care. This article discusses these three issues briefly and offers two challenging case studies involving patient‐centered care that illustrate how a clinical ethics consultation may help to avert the escalation that can lead to a tort claim.