Ethical Concerns and   Considerations [WLOs: 1, 2, 3] [CLOs: 1, 3, 4]Day 1 of this course, your instructor will assign you to one of the four case studies below. Prior to beginning the discussion, r

Required Resources

Text

Bustillos, D., & Vellek, S. (2019). Health care ethics and medical law. Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu

• Chapter 1: The Evolution of Health Care Ethics: Overview, Theories, and Ethics

• Chapter 2: Patient Bill of Rights & Informed Consent

• Chapter 3: Moral Identity: Code of Ethics and Institutional Ethics Structures

Articles

Longo, D. L., & Grady, C. (2015). Enduring and emerging challenges of informed consent. The New England Journal of Medicine, 372(9), 855–862. doi:10.1056/NEJMra1411250

• The full-text version of this article is available through the ProQuest database in the Ashford University Library. This article provides a summary of emerging standards for informed consent as the underpinning of ethical research in humans. This article will assist you in your Informed Consent Form quiz this week.

Low, J.A., & Ho, E. (2017). Managing ethical dilemmas in end-stage neurodegenerative diseases (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Geriatrics, 2(1), 8–15. doi:10.3390/geriatrics2010008

• The full-text version of this article is available in the online classroom. This article provides information about approaches to ethical decision-making. Topics discussed within the article include mental capacity and decision-making capability, advance care planning, withholding and/or withdrawing treatment, food refusal, the do-not-resuscitate order, and euthanasia. This article will assist you with your Ethical Concerns and Considerations discussion this week.
  Accessibility Statement does not exist.
  Privacy Policy (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Spatz, E. S., Krumholz, H. M., & Moulton, B. W. (2016). The new era of informed consent: Getting to a reasonable-patient standard through shared decision making (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. JAMA, 315(19), 2063–2064. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.3070

• The full-text version of this article is available through the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) database in the Ashford University Library. This article provides information about the right of patients to be informed about care decisions in clinical practice, policy initiatives to advance informed consent, and the opportunities for revitalizing patient standards for informed consent. This article will assist you in your Informed Consent Form quiz this week.

Web Page

Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. (n.d.). IRB case studies (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Retrieved from https://bioethics.yale.edu/research/irb-case-studies

• This web page provides several IRB cases in research ethics and will assist you with your Ethical Concerns and Considerations discussion.
  Accessibility Statement (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
  Privacy Policy (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Recommended Resources

Articles

Butler, M. (2016). Release or not? Patients’ rights to health records becoming increasingly complex (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Journal of AHIMA, 87(4), 14–19. Retrieved from http://bok.ahima.org/doc?oid=301405#.W47NkZMnbct

• This article provides a scenario that addresses the complexities of patients’ rights to health records and may assist you in your Ethical Concerns and Considerations discussion this week.
  Accessibility Statement does not exist
  Privacy Policy (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Campbell, K., & Parsi, K. (2017). A new age of patient transparency: An organizational framework for informed consent. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 45(1), 60–65. doi:10.1177/1073110517703100

• The full-text version of this article is available through the EBSCOhost database in the Ashford University Library. This article examines relevant historical, legal, and ethical elements within the doctrine of informed consent, as well as the role of healthcare organizations’ obligations to include data to support issues such as population health, health outcomes, and health disparities within the informed consent. This article may assist you in your Informed Consent Form quiz this week.