Ethical case interventions for adult patients.
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SUBMITTER: Schildmann J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6698942 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
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Ethical case interventions for adult patients.
Schildmann Jan J Nadolny Stephan S Haltaufderheide Joschka J Gysels Marjolein M Vollmann Jochen J Bausewein Claudia C
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 20190722
<h4>Background</h4>Decisions in clinical medicine can be associated with ethical challenges. Ethical case interventions (e.g. ethics committee, moral case deliberation) identify and analyse ethical conflicts which occur within the context of care for patients. Ethical case interventions involve ethical experts, different health professionals as well as the patient and his/her family. The aim is to support decision-making in clinical practice. This systematic review gathered and critically apprai ...[more]
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