Tag / Center for Practical Bioethics
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Ethics Dispatch February 2024
This month our Ethics Dispatch discusses the hot topic of Autonomy in the Absence of Decisional Capacity. Other sections include Bioethics In the News, a Case Study and Ethical Musing.
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AI in Kansas City Healthcare
This Kansas City Beacon story explains how, since 2021, in the absence of governmental regulation, the Center’s Ethical AI Initiative has taken a lead in mapping out AI standards, with hope for their eventual adoption by all Kansas City area providers. For now, hospitals aren’t required to tell patients when they’re using AI.
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February 9 2024 Email Newsletter
In this bulletin, read about “AI Ethics and the Productivity Trap” blog, how Center experts are available for speaking engagements, and more in the Center for Practical Bioethics’ February 9, 2024 email newsletter.
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AI Ethics and the Productivity Trap
In this blog, Matthew Pjecha, MS, Ethical AI Program Coordinator at the Center, considers what will happen when future best practices run up against the material interests in increased production. Which will give way to the other? Will society ever get beyond asking how these models are made to address why they are used?
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January 30 2024 Email Newsletter
Read about our new board members of 2024, the blog “If I had Known Then…,” the January 2024 Ethics Dispatch, and more in the Center for Practical Bioethics’ January 30, 2024 email newsletter.
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Case Study – A Multidisciplinary Healthcare Team Disagrees
Most members of the ICU team, and the palliative care consultant, believe that prognosis is poor and death is imminent. Their patient is still Full Code, however, and his wife and daughter are adamant that providers “continue to do everything that will work.”
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Ethics Dispatch January 2024
This month our Ethics Dispatch discusses the hot topic of Multidisciplinary Teams: The Risks and the Promise. Other sections include Bioethics In the News, a Case Study and Ethical Musing.
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What I Wish I Had Known Then and What I Know Now about Ethics Consultation
Recognizing American healthcare has many problems without solutions, Trudi Galblum, Marketing Director, writes about the good news that resources do exist that can resolve many ethical dilemmas. Healthcare ethicists can recommend the best treatment and discharge options, relieving patients and families of the burden of uncertainty.
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January 9 2024 Email Newsletter
In 2024, as we celebrate four decades of raising and responding to ethical issues in health and healthcare, we would like to share the Center for Practical Bioethics’ Top 10 Highlights of 2023 in the Center for Practical Bioethics’ January 9, 2024 email newsletter.
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Advance Care Planning: Responding to the Need for Diverse Communities’ Participation
In this blog, James Stowe, President and CEO, discusses building on the Center’s legacy work in Advance Care Planning, the Center’s national involvement in end-of-life care emphasizes our growing commitment to diverse communities’ participation and the need to respond effectively to emergent high stress situations in medical decision making.
