IF 1.2 4区哲学

Hec Forum Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2022-12-26 DOI: 10.1007/s10730-022-09504-9

Shahin Davoudpour, John K Davis

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The Ethics of Clinical Ethics. 临床伦理学。

IF 1.2 4区哲学

Hec Forum Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-29 DOI: 10.1007/s10730-024-09544-3

Matthew Shea

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Positioning Ethics When Direct Patient Care is Prioritized: Experiences from Implementing Ethics Case Reflection Rounds in Childhood Cancer Care. 在优先考虑直接患者护理时定位伦理：在儿童癌症护理中实施伦理案例反思查房的经验。

IF 1.2 4区哲学

Hec Forum Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10730-024-09541-6

Pernilla Pergert, Bert Molewijk, Cecilia Bartholdson

{"title":"Positioning Ethics When Direct Patient Care is Prioritized: Experiences from Implementing Ethics Case Reflection Rounds in Childhood Cancer Care.","authors":"Pernilla Pergert, Bert Molewijk, Cecilia Bartholdson","doi":"10.1007/s10730-024-09541-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10730-024-09541-6","url":null,"abstract":"Caring for children with cancer involves complex ethical challenges. Ethics Case Reflection (ECR) rounds can be offered to support teams to reflect on challenges and what should be done in patient care. A training course, for facilitators of ECR rounds, has been offered to healthcare professionals (HCPs) in childhood cancer care by a Nordic working group on ethics. During/after the course, the trainees implemented and facilitated ECR rounds in their clinical setting. The aim was to explore the trainees' experiences of implementing ECR rounds in childhood cancer care. HCPs, who participated as trainees in the course, participated in 3 focus group interviews (n = 22) and 27 individual interviews (n = 17). Interview data were analysed concurrently with data collection following classic grounded theory. Positioning ethics is the core category in this study, used to resolve the main concern of doing ethics in a context where direct patient care is prioritized. Being able to take time for ethics reflections, not perceived as the key priority, was considered a luxury in the clinical setting. Strategies for positioning ethics include allying, promoting ethics reflection, scheduling ethics reflection, and identifying ethical dilemmas. These strategies can be more or less successful and vary in intensity. The prioritisation of direct patient care is not surprising, but polarisation between care and ethics needs to be questioned and ethics reflection need to be integrated in standard care. Ethical competence seems to be central in doing ethics and more knowledge on the promotion of ethical competence in practice and education is needed.","PeriodicalId":46160,"journal":{"name":"Hec Forum","volume":" ","pages":"345-356"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142565265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Creating Barriers to Healthcare and Advance Care Planning by Requiring Hospitals to Ask Patients About Their Immigration Status. 通过要求医院询问患者的移民身份，为医疗保健和提前护理计划制造障碍。

IF 1.2 4区哲学

Hec Forum Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-07 DOI: 10.1007/s10730-024-09542-5

Cathy L Purvis Lively

{"title":"Creating Barriers to Healthcare and Advance Care Planning by Requiring Hospitals to Ask Patients About Their Immigration Status.","authors":"Cathy L Purvis Lively","doi":"10.1007/s10730-024-09542-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10730-024-09542-5","url":null,"abstract":"Florida is currently collecting data on the \"costs of uncompensated care for aliens who are not lawfully present in the U.S.\" (Statutes of Florida, 2023). The Florida data collection law, enacted in 2023, is part of aggressive anti-immigrant legislation. Hospitals accepting Medicaid must inquire about patients' immigration status and submit de-identified reports. In August 2024, the Governor of Texas signed an Executive Order comparable to the Florida statute. Although presented as a data-collection measure, the legal requirements have far-reaching consequences. The potential adverse impacts on immigrants' health pose bioethical concerns. Immigration-related inquiries create barriers to healthcare access and advance care planning, exacerbating healthcare disparities and presenting ethical concerns. This article examines the effects on immigrants and the resulting ethical challenges, including respect for persons, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. The article proposes recommendations for mitigating these challenges, including community outreach, patient education, policy development, in-service education, and advocacy. While the legal requirements apply specifically to Florida and Texas, the ethical issues have nationwide relevance.","PeriodicalId":46160,"journal":{"name":"Hec Forum","volume":" ","pages":"357-372"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142792646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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MAiD: How Slippery is its Slope? 服务员：它的斜坡有多滑？

IF 1.2 4区哲学

Hec Forum Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10730-025-09551-y

Tom Koch

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What's Left of Moral Bioenhancement? Reviewing a 15-Year Debate. 道德生物强化还剩下什么？回顾15年的辩论。

IF 1.2 4区哲学

Hec Forum Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-27 DOI: 10.1007/s10730-024-09545-2

Hunter Bissette, Dario Cecchini, Ryan Sterner, Elizabeth Eskander, Veljko Dubljević

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Survey of Moral Distress and Self-Awareness among Health Care Professionals. 医护人员道德压力和自我意识调查。

IF 1.2 4区哲学

Hec Forum Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-27 DOI: 10.1007/s10730-024-09539-0

Sharoon Shahzad, Rehana Sajid, Joel Fakhar, Ayesha Saleem Khan, Nizar Ali, Ahtisham Younas

{"title":"Survey of Moral Distress and Self-Awareness among Health Care Professionals.","authors":"Sharoon Shahzad, Rehana Sajid, Joel Fakhar, Ayesha Saleem Khan, Nizar Ali, Ahtisham Younas","doi":"10.1007/s10730-024-09539-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10730-024-09539-0","url":null,"abstract":"Health care professionals experience moral distress due to challenging ethical decision-making during patient care. Self-awareness can be associated with moral distress. This study determined the levels of and relationship between moral distress and self-awareness of health care professionals. A convenience sample of physicians and nurses was recruited. Data were collected using the Moral Distress and Self-Awareness Scales. In total, 168 physicians and 201 nurses participated with a mean age of 30.54 ± 7.87 and clinical experience of 6.40 ± 6.22 years. Moderate levels of moral distress (127.07 ± 71.90) and high levels of self-awareness (70.20 ± 11.37) were found. A weak positive correlation was found between self-awareness and moral distress (r = 0.21, p < 0.001) and weak negative correlation between moral distress (r = - 0.115, p = 0.03) and age. Nurses were more self-aware, but no differences were observed in moral distress based on sex and clinical settings. A weak correlation between self-awareness and moral distress may suggest that self-awareness can increase intrapersonal tensions, contributing to distress. Further research is needed to support any conclusive relationship between moral distress and self-awareness.","PeriodicalId":46160,"journal":{"name":"Hec Forum","volume":" ","pages":"333-344"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142356111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Medical Assistance in Dying, Slippery Slopes, and Availability of Care: A Reply to Koch. 死亡中的医疗援助、滑坡和护理的可用性：对科赫的回复。

IF 1.2 4区哲学

Hec Forum Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-09 DOI: 10.1007/s10730-024-09543-4

Don A Merrell

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Liberalism and Lockdowns. 自由主义和封锁。

IF 1.3 4区哲学

Hec Forum Pub Date : 2025-07-19 DOI: 10.1007/s10730-025-09552-x

D Robert MacDougall

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"Don't Tell Them Anything": Should Surrogate Decision-Makers Be Allowed to Withhold Information from Other Family Members or Prevent Them from Visiting with a Patient? “什么都不要告诉他们”：是否应该允许代理决策者向其他家庭成员隐瞒信息或阻止他们探望病人？

IF 1.3 4区哲学

Hec Forum Pub Date : 2025-07-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10730-025-09554-9

Bryanna Moore, Shalom Schlagman, Laine E DiNoto, David C Kaufman, Nicholas Mercado, Michael J Nabozny, Marjorie Hodges Shaw

{"title":"\"Don't Tell Them Anything\": Should Surrogate Decision-Makers Be Allowed to Withhold Information from Other Family Members or Prevent Them from Visiting with a Patient?","authors":"Bryanna Moore, Shalom Schlagman, Laine E DiNoto, David C Kaufman, Nicholas Mercado, Michael J Nabozny, Marjorie Hodges Shaw","doi":"10.1007/s10730-025-09554-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10730-025-09554-9","url":null,"abstract":"While patients have the right to control who has access to their health information and designate visitors, it is not always clear whether-when a patient lacks capacity-their surrogate also exercises such rights. States and federal laws are often vague about the limits of surrogate authority. Even where legal or institutional guidance on this issue is clear, requests by surrogates to withhold information or restrict visitation with a patient can be a source of ethical uncertainty and distress on the part of the clinical team. This paper explores the ethical issues raised by such requests. To date, there has been little exploration of this issue in the clinical ethics literature. First, we summarize the scant existing ethical and legal guidance on this issue. Second, we present two potential approaches to navigating requests from surrogates to withhold information or restrict visitation. Third, we discuss the merits and limitations of both approaches, and introduce some additional considerations that further complicate the picture. We argue for a flexible restrictive approach to information-sharing, and a constrained permissive approach to visitation. Finally, we propose several considerations that clinicians and clinical ethicists might think through in these situations to help guide their practice.","PeriodicalId":46160,"journal":{"name":"Hec Forum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144545370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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