Complex Decisions

Essays and articles in the November-December 2022 issue of the Hastings Center Report explore the complexities of medical decision-making. A case-study essay, for example, argues that the dismaying decision to perform resuscitation efforts on a patient who had obviously been dead for some time can b...

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Published in:The Hastings Center report
Main Author: Haupt, Laura (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley 2022
In: The Hastings Center report
Further subjects:B medical decision-making
B Bioethics
B Animal welfare
B decision-making for children and adolescents
B clinical ethics
B chimeric research
B decision-quality measures
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Summary:Essays and articles in the November-December 2022 issue of the Hastings Center Report explore the complexities of medical decision-making. A case-study essay, for example, argues that the dismaying decision to perform resuscitation efforts on a patient who had obviously been dead for some time can be understood in the context of the harmful practice of defensive medicine. A narrative essay concerns whether an adolescent with locked-in syndrome should be asked her wishes about life-sustaining interventions, and the articles illuminate the ethical value of the parental role in pediatric decision-making, an array of ways in which patient decision-making is interdependent, and the limitations of measures designed to evaluate the quality of a patient's decision and decision-making process.
ISSN:1552-146X
Contains:Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1002/hast.1438