Health + Hospitals Ethics Network

NYC Health + Hospitals Ethics Network

Ethics Paragraphs

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Adolescent patient
Advance directives
Allocation of scarce resources
Artificial nutrition and hydration
Assent and consent
Best interest standard
Brain death & reasonable accommodation
Challenging families
Changing goals of care
Communication
Confidentiality
Conscientious objection
Consent to and refusal of treatment
Cultural/religious issues
Cultural values and treatment
Decision-making capacity
Decision-maker identification
Decision-making in the neontatal ICU
Disagreements between patients and family or among family members
Disagreements between staff and patient/family
DNR orders
Double effect doctrine
End-of-life balance of acute and palliative interventions
Failure of the medical team to assume responsibility for difficult choices
False choices
Informed consent
Informed consent has a number of requirements
Mediation
Medical futility
Moral distress
Organizational ethics
Palliative care
Patient autonomy
Quality of life
Religious values and treatment
Shared decision-making
Sharing the burden of responsibility
Substituted judgment
Therapeutic exception
Truth telling
Withdrawing and withholding treatment

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Last updated: February 2016