Consortium Guidelines

The following are documents produced by the Kansas City Hospital Ethics Committee Consortium.  The majority of this material is free through the generous support of individuals and organizations across the country. To make your own contribution to support this endeavor click here.

For printed copies of these documents, please email bioethic@practicalbioethics.org. For documents requiring a fee click on the title to purchase online.

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• Case Review Checklist

• Considerations Regarding Life-Prolonging Treatment Decisions for Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities –$20.00

• Considerations Regarding Withholding/Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatments — $10.00

• Cultural Diversity Tool

• Ethical Guidelines in Managed Mental Health

• Ethical Issues in Managed Care: Guidelines for Clinicians and Recommendations to Accrediting Organization –$20.00

• Ethics Committee Handbook – For New Members Orientation

• Ethics of Physician Incentives

• Considerations Regarding the Needs of Long-Term Care Residents for Intimate Relationships and Sexual Activity

• Guidelines for the Determination of Decisional Incapacity –$20.00

• Guidelines for Providing Ethical Care in Difficult Provider-Patient Relationships

• Health Care Treatment Decision-Making Guidelines for Adults with Developmental Disabilities –$20.00

• Health Care Treatment Decision-Making Guidelines for Minors –$20.00

• Honoring Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) Orders During Invasive Procedures –$10.00

• Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Ethical Guidelines for Health Care Providers –$10.00

• Implementation of Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990 –$10.00

• Meditations, William G. Bartholome, with preface by Don Reynolds and foreward by Myra Christopher –$20
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• Patient Rights’ Guidelines Document –$10.00

• Recommendations for the Development of Policies and Procedures for Ethics Committees –$10.00

• Recommended Policy Guidelines Regarding Medical Futility

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