Clinical Ethics and Inappropriate Care at ASBH 2018

Join me at 11:30, on Sunday, October 18, 2018, at ASBH 2018 in Castle B-C for this session on Clinical Ethics and Inappropriate Care. Inappropriate ICU Admissions: One Step Closer to Addressing Inappropriate ICU Care for PatientsKatherine E. Kruse, MD; Ruth Marks, MS3; Stephanie M. Harman, MD; David Magnus, PhD Major medical societies have developed comprehensive guidelines to identify non-beneficial treatment within the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Recently, the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Ethics Committee published a policy statement to more clearly define inappropriate treatments as those provided without reasonable expectation that the patient will survive outside the acute care setting or when the patient is unable to perceive the benefits of treatment. Closely related to providing inappropriate ICU treatments is inappropriately admitting a patient to the ICU, for which these societies have yet to reach consensus. Qualitative research methods were used to…

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