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L J Weber

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Taking on organizational ethics. To do so, ethics committees must first prepare themselves.

Healthcare ethics committees which have focused almost entirely on clinical ethics, now need to prepare to deal with organizational ethics, a field that is attracting increasing attention. As they did with clinical ethics, ethics committees members must educate themselves in the demands of the newer field. As before, they must respect the perspectives of the actual decision makers while maintaining an independent framework for analyzing the issues at stake. They must ensure that management is properly represented on the committee if they need guidance from a professional ethicist they should seek one with a strong background in business ethics and social justice. Healthcare organizations are likely to need help with a wide range of ethical issues involving patient services (rationing of resources, for example), business and service plans (mergers and joint ventures, for example), business and professional integrity (conflicts of interest, for example), employee rights and responsibilities (downsizing, for example), and the organization's role in in the community (advocacy and lobbying, for example). To be helpful to the organization, the ethics committee must be prepared to say when cost factors trump other considerations and when they do not. An ethics committee will often be asked to give advice on specific occasions-a proposed new policy, for instance. The most important part of its response is its analysis of the issue. Finally, an ethics committee should view its organization as part of the larger social context.

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The ethics of billing.

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Clinical Laboratory Techniques↗
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Ethics and the future of health care.

Ethical values and beliefs will shape the decisions that shape the future of health care. This can be exemplified by reviewing some of the issues related to developing genetic testing. A good leader recognizes the ethical issues and addresses them explicitly.

Ethics, Medical↗
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Profit or service.

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Ethics, Institutional↗
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Integrated ethics for the clinical systems manager.

This article describes how clinical systems managers can integrate clinical ethics, management ethics, and the social responsibility of business or organizational leaders (business ethics) to resolve ethical dilemmas they may encounter. Three examples are discussed: policy on use of resources, personnel issues, and managed care and the current backlash against it.

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A commentary on "Securing Access to Health Care." Ethics Commission access report urges adequate care for all.

Society has a moral obligation to provide adequate access to health care for all, concludes the President's Commission for te Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavorial Research in its report Securing Access to Health Care. Though the federal government's involvement is not necessary if private forces are able to achieve equity in health care delivery, the government bears the ultimate responsibility for ensuring that society fulfills its obligations. Meeting these objectives will require changes in the country's political and economic systems, which traditionally have not emphasized subordinating the individual good to the common good. The needs of the poor must take priority even at risk of burdening the advantaged. The commission recognizes that it is irresponsible to advocate equity without acknowledging the need to control costs. Greater equity can be attained only if changes in health care management practices are adopted and if decisions regarding resource use are based on social goals. Thus placing the needs of the poor first may mean a commitment to use less high-cost treatment. The report presents an opportunity to promote a more just health care policy. Catholic health care facilities, for example, can be made models of institutions that have met the needs of the poor, and they can become social justice advocates for government policies that benefit the poor and the disadvantaged.

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