Ethics in the Intensive Care Unit / 결핵및호흡기질환
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
;
: 175-179, 2015.
Article
in English
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-114252
ABSTRACT
The intensive care unit (ICU) is the most common place to die. Also, ethical conflicts among stakeholders occur frequently in the ICU. Thus, ICU clinicians should be competent in all aspects for ethical decision-making. Major sources of conflicts are behavioral issues, such as verbal abuse or poor communication between physicians and nurses, and end-of-life care issues including a lack of respect for the patient's autonomy. The ethical conflicts are significantly associated with the job strain and burn-out syndrome of healthcare workers, and consequently, may threaten the quality of care. To improve the quality of care, handling ethical conflicts properly is emerging as a vital and more comprehensive area. The ICU physicians themselves need to be more sensitive to behavioral conflicts and enable shared decision making in end-of-life care. At the same time, the institutions and administrators should develop their processes to find and resolve common ethical problems in their ICUs.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Terminal Care
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Administrative Personnel
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Decision Making
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Delivery of Health Care
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Ethics
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Intensive Care Units
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
Year:
2015
Type:
Article
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