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Journal of Interprofessional Care, 2002
Managed care in the USA is best understood in the context of the history of health care. It is an effort to manage the soaring costs of health care while retaining quality. Many ethical concerns arise because managed care organizations (MCOs) have dual purposes: to realize profits and to provide quality care.
Mary-T, Dombeck, Tobie H, Olsan
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Managed care in the USA is best understood in the context of the history of health care. It is an effort to manage the soaring costs of health care while retaining quality. Many ethical concerns arise because managed care organizations (MCOs) have dual purposes: to realize profits and to provide quality care.
Mary-T, Dombeck, Tobie H, Olsan
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Medical Clinics of North America, 1996
Managed care presents physicians with potential ethical dilemmas different from dilemmas in traditional fee-for-service practice. The ethical assumptions of managed care are explored, with special attention to the evolving dual responsibilities of physicians as patient advocates and as entrepreneurs.
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Managed care presents physicians with potential ethical dilemmas different from dilemmas in traditional fee-for-service practice. The ethical assumptions of managed care are explored, with special attention to the evolving dual responsibilities of physicians as patient advocates and as entrepreneurs.
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Death Education, 1978
Abstract The need for a critical and analytical approach to the ethics of terminal care is suggested by considering a series of unexamined questions regarding the justification of terminal care. Among them are: (1) Do patients have a right to terminal care?
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Abstract The need for a critical and analytical approach to the ethics of terminal care is suggested by considering a series of unexamined questions regarding the justification of terminal care. Among them are: (1) Do patients have a right to terminal care?
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Ethics of Care in Caring for the Elderly
Southern Medical Journal, 1994While some ethical and value issues are unique to the care of the elderly, many are shared with other age groups in medical practice. Efforts at cost containment and the rationing of medical services are impinging deeply on the elderly and placing physicians in roles that may interfere with the covenant of faithfulness that exists between physician and
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Ethics of Caring and the Institutional Ethics Committee
Hypatia, 1989Institutional ethics committees (lECs) in health care facilities now create moral policy, provide moral education, and consult with physicians and other health care workers. After sketching reasons for the development of IECs, this paper first examines the predominant moral standards it is often assumed lECs are now using, these standards being neo ...
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BMJ, 2008
On the 60th anniversary of the public UK health service Muireann Quigley and Brian H Willis ask whether it could survive without coexisting private ...
Quigley, Muireann, Willis, Brian H
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On the 60th anniversary of the public UK health service Muireann Quigley and Brian H Willis ask whether it could survive without coexisting private ...
Quigley, Muireann, Willis, Brian H
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Clinical Ethics and Nursing: “Yes” to Caring, But “No” to a Female Ethics of Care
Bioethics, 1995AbstractAccording to a contemporary school of thought there is a specific female approach to ethics which is based not on abstract “male” ethical principles or rules, but on “care”. Nurses have taken a keen interest in these female approaches to ethics.
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The Ethics of the Caring Conversation
Nursing Ethics, 2003The aim of this study was to explore the ethical foundations for a caring conversation. The analysis is based on the ethics of Paul Ricoeur and deals with questions such as what kind of person the nurse ought to be and how she or he engages in caring conversations with suffering others.
Lennart, Fredriksson, Katie, Eriksson
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International Journal of Technoethics, 2013
In this paper, the moral theory ethics of care – EoC – is investigated and connected to care robots. The aim is twofold: first, to provide a plausible and ethically relevant interpretation of the key term care in EoC (which is, it is argued, slightly different from the everyday use of the term) indicating that we should distinguish between “natural ...
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In this paper, the moral theory ethics of care – EoC – is investigated and connected to care robots. The aim is twofold: first, to provide a plausible and ethically relevant interpretation of the key term care in EoC (which is, it is argued, slightly different from the everyday use of the term) indicating that we should distinguish between “natural ...
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BMJ, 2009
Requires respect for patient autonomy, partnership with families, and education More than 24 million people are living with dementia worldwide,1 and this figure is expected to double every 20 years.1 Dementia is an age related disease—about 25% of Europeans aged 85 or more are affected.1 The increasing number of people with dementia is challenging for
Marja-Liisa, Laakkonen, Kaisu, Pitkälä
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Requires respect for patient autonomy, partnership with families, and education More than 24 million people are living with dementia worldwide,1 and this figure is expected to double every 20 years.1 Dementia is an age related disease—about 25% of Europeans aged 85 or more are affected.1 The increasing number of people with dementia is challenging for
Marja-Liisa, Laakkonen, Kaisu, Pitkälä
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