Considerations Regarding Life-Prolonging Treatment Decisions for Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities.
These guidelines offer suggestions regarding residents' rights, advance directives, surrogate decision making, documentation of decisions, conflict resolution, care of residents who are dying, and hospice care. Facilities in any state that wish to review their policies will benefit from these considerations.
Considerations Regarding Withholding/Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatments.
Of special interest for committees engaged in considerations of futile treatment, these guidelines provide ethical principles, definitions, assumptions, and a model for shared decision making regarding the withholding/withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment.
Ethical Issues in Managed Care: Guidelines for Clinicians and Recommendations to Accrediting Organizations.
Guidelines to enhance the integration of ethics in managed care organizations. $20.00
Guidelines for the Determination of Decisional Incapacity.
This document outlines a process to assess persons who have diminished decisional capacity, and methods for enhancing marginal or fluctuating decisional capacity.
Health Care Treatment Decision-Making Guidelines for Adults with Developmental Disabilities.
Guidelines offering a decision-making model for maximizing healthcare participation by persons who have disabilities; a statement of the healthcare rights retained by individual with incomplete decision-making capacity; and a critical, open process for determining when a person's decision-making capacity is absent or incomplete. A valuable resource for anyone who provides health care or support services to people with disabilities.
Health Care Treatment Decision-Making Guidelines for Minors.
Guidelines to assure minors' participation in giving assent to treatment and parents' roles as giving permission, rather than consent, to their children's treatment. Of special interest to children's hospitals and acute-care facilities with pediatric units.
Honoring Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) Orders During Invasive Procedures.
Ethics committees should study policies that would afford the patient the right to refuse suspension of DNR orders during invasive surgery. These guidelines raise the ethical issue. Brief bibliography included.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Ethical Guidelines for Health Care Providers.
Though patients with HIV are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act, these guidelines offer insights for policies to guarantee nondiscrimination among this population.
Implementation of Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990.
These guidelines offer definitions, a summary of relevant legislation, information to be provided, and ongoing education suggestions. Health Care providing organizations affected by the PSDA will benefit by using these as a review guide for their own implementation policies and procedures.
Patient Rights' Guidelines Document.
This document focuses on ethical rights of patients and responsibilities of institutions.
Recommendations for the Development of Policies and Procedures for Ethics Committees.
A widely-used document with guidelines that indicate the steps to be followed in the establishment of an ethics committee.
