... BUSINESS ETHICS CHAPTER 1: ETHICS & BUSINESS ETHICS AN INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS 617–636 617 xiv Contents MEANING AND DEFINITION OF ETHICS NATURE AND OBJECTIVE OF ETHICS INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS ETHICS ... (a bare promise) and is not enforceable at law Moreover, the consideration must be real and lawful Lawful object The object of the agreement must be lawful and not one which the law disapproves ... parties, competent to contract, for a lawful consideration and with a lawful object and are not hereby expressly declared to be void.” Law, Ethics & Communication Law Thus, the essential elements...
... state and federal policy officials and program administrators, dental professionals, and others, to discuss children’s access to dentalcare in Medicaid and SCHIP, and to exchange information and ... Bush – provisions that would mandate dental benefits and provide for increased monitoring of dentalcare access, use, andquality among children enrolled in Medicaid and SCHIP Although the proposed ... coverage and arranging for care The benefits required under EPSDT include preventive dental care, as well as all dentalcare that is medically necessary to restore teeth and maintain dental health...
... lawand medicine, at the Australian National University, and has published and spoken widely, nationally and internationally, on issues in health lawandethics He has been Executive Officer and ... Professionalism, Ethicsand Law, gives a clue to its much more ambitious scope It recognises that good medical practice requires the knowledge and application of lawandethicsand that there is ... Common law: the practice of precedent 356 24.9 Common law: the structure of precedent 357 24.10 Types of Australian law: civil and criminal law 24.11 Common lawand equity 358 24.12 Standards...
... Gowthorpe and John Blake ETHICSAND VALUES IN HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT Edited by Souzy Dracopoulou ETHICSAND COMMUNITY IN THE HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONS Edited by Michael Parker London and New York ... as the function and value of a code of ethicsand the demands of confidentiality Also available in this series: ETHICAL ISSUES IN JOURNALISM AND THE MEDIA Edited by Andrew Belsey and Ruth Chadwick ... History and Philosophy of Science and Visiting Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh He has published extensively in the areas of ethicsand medical ethicsand is the author of Ethics...
... Brownsword, “Bioethics Today, Bioethics Tomorrow: Stem Cell Research and the ‘Dignitarian Alliance’”, Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethicsand Public Policy 17 (2003): 15 16 EthicsandLaw of Intellectual ... Resources and Population Genomics in Iceland, Estonia, and Tonga”, Medicine, Health Careand Philosophy (2003): 133–144 32 EthicsandLaw of Intellectual Property The current situation of the Icelandic ... Philosophy and Moral Science at Gent University She teaches courses in ethics, medical ethics, bioethics and environmental ethics She is also a member of the Belgian Advisory Committee on Bioethics...
... reduce maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality Geographical accessibility to health care facilities in the country is good with over 85% and 97% of the population living within km and km of ... prescribed" Perceived quality of care received Women's testimonies depicted mixed reactions As some expressed satisfaction with the quality of care received others did not Interpersonal care processes ... view in determining quality of care has been criticized [12,38], however, its measurement fulfils important issues of care including: understanding users' experiences of health care, promoting cooperation,...
... score and each component of quality of care) The analysis tested the interactions between each component of quality of careand menopause; such interactions were not statistically significant and ... family doctors in the last year Quality of careand satisfaction with care (Table 4) The quality of care was assessed in three domains: health promotion, screening, and treatment Regarding health ... analysis of the quality of care process with a swift and replicable methodology The evaluation of the quality of care pointed out flaws in the processes of health promotion, screening, and treatment...
... to HIV careand treatment These are usually based on unselected patients in care at a single clinic or across multiple clinics, and use data collected during the routine delivery of HIV care [4-6] ... 559 and 1233 patients in the routine clinic database were recorded for severe bacteria pneumonia (81.8% and 96.4%, respectively), herpes zoster (83.3% and 88.8%), oral candidiasis (55.9% and ... (12.2% and 12.2%), Cryptococcus meningitis (+12.5% and 12.5%), and Kaposi’s sarcoma (+16.7% and +150%) Although the same number of patients was identified with Cryptococcus meningitis and Kaposi’s...
... appraising caregiving as restrictive and burdensome can negatively affect caregiver quality of life [7], whereas, caregiver confidence in their knowledge about providing careand self-efficacy in the caregiving ... assess the caregiving role in caregivers of people with stroke [36,37] Reciprocity The qualityand intensity of exchanges between the care recipient and caregiver were assessed by caregivers ... family caregivers of partners with stroke, (2) to examine predictors of positive and negative aspects of the caregiver role and HRQL, and (3) compare caregivers HRQL to a normative non-caregiving...
... secretarial and reception staff) and seven healthcare professionals (primary care physicians, practice nurses, and one healthcare assistant) Piloting was by postal survey for all administrative staff and ... and standard deviations of scores for team function and organisational behaviour measures, for general and diabetes specific measures and illness sickness absence and intention to leave GPs and ... Helsinki, Finland Authors’ contributions The study was conceived by MPE, JJF, MJ, NS, JMG, ME, GH, and MH The study was run by SH and MPE with data handling and analyses by SH, ES, JP, and NS, and ongoing...
... patient care units and related resource allocation, nursing is increasingly recognized as pivotal both to the quality of care in general and to the implementation of interdisciplinarybased qualitycare ... subject to testing and has been found to be credible [67,68] This includes: ؠResearch, ؠPatient experiences and preferences, and ؠPractical knowledge and local data (e.g audit, quality assessments, ... utilization among the management, and organizational support [37]." Ferlie and Shortell [38], after assessing initiatives on the quality of health care in the United Kingdom and the United States – which...
... Poorterman JHG: On quality of dental care; the development, validation and standardisation of an index for the assessment of restorative care Thesis University of Amsterdam: The Netherlands; 1997 National ... likely size of dental primary care ICCs, and which prognostic factors influenced their magnitude Based on research in this field, we assumed a substantial variation in primary dentalcare between ... Health Care Insurance Board (CVZ) in Amsterdam The Netherlands References van den Berg H, Bruers JJM, van Rossum GMJM, Smits ER, Swinkels HWAM, Verweij GCG: Tandartsen, tandartsbezoek en tandheelkundige...
... developing a health care infrastructure that can address access and delivery issues of genomic medicine; training healthcare workers; and engaging with the public to improve awareness and participation.” ... be addressed internationally include data and sample sharing, research capacity building in developing countries, and rules and guidelines for building and using international repositories containing ... the applica tion of genomic and molecular data will help to target the delivery of healthcare, will facilitate the discovery and clinical testing of new products and will help determine a patient’s...
... domains of caregiving and caregiver psychic distress on the one hand, and Page of 11 caregiver’s/patient’s socio-demographic characteristics, clinical features and indices of quality of care, on ... socio-demographic and clinical characteristics [6], there is a paucity of studies on the relationship with indices of quality of care (such as patients’ met/unmet needs for care, service satisfaction andquality ... the caregiving role results in strain for the family caregiver The impact of caregiving on the caregiver depends on the characteristics of the patient, the caregiver, their relationship and the...
... balance of supply and demand between health care providers and the public; a balance between the health care the public needs and that which its want; and a balance between what health care providers ... Care February 2002 Vol No Hawryluck and Crippen involved in the design and/ or funding of a project, then what are the responsibilities and obligations of the investigator to future subjects and ... patients, their families, and critical care practitioners, using logic and reaching agreement on common goals In the coming months, Critical Care Forum will explore these and the other ethical issues...
... of researchers and those of a for-profit player (to each other, to the participants and to the wider society) abound How these conflicting views, values and beliefs are weighed and balanced is ... intrusiveness and to maximize effectiveness, have not been clearly elucidated At the same time, issues of accountability and even liability in cases of harm are starting to arise for researchers, REBs and ... Critical Care April 2004 Vol No Hawryluck REBs are currently asked to ensure that research protocols they approve are ethically conducted The logistics and practicalities of this mandate, ways...
... Critical care organization Crit Care Clin 2005, 21:43-53 Ferdinande P: Recommendations on minimal requirements for intensive care departments Intensive Care Med 1997, 23:226-232 Fisher M: Critical care- the ... exposures and outcomes Intensive Care Med 2005, 31:1153-1160 American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine: Consensus Conference: definitions for sepsis and organ failure and ... Kilonzo M, Vale L: Quality of life before and after intensive care Anaesthesia 2005, 60:332-339 Granja C, Teixeira-Pinto A, Costa-Pereira A: Quality of life after intensive care- evaluation with...
... of health care professionals is changing markedly, and there are many more opportunities across various medical fields for expanding the use of simulations Microsimulation in critical care is no ... intensive care unit; the simulation algorithms predicted between 1,779 and 1,804 discharges! The best results were seen when the model also incorporated information on the duration of illness and the ... score [12,13] The paper by Saka and colleagues, however, included additional data from the clinical course before they entered the intensive care unit (age, gender, and ethnicity), thus ‘recreating...
... Critical Care Vol 12 No Graf et al patients [3] Longstanding economic constraints, present within all health care systems, create pressures to ration ICU care ethically [4] Restricting the demands ... compression and ventilation in patients with signs and/ or symptoms of cardiac arrest Patient care was at the discretion of the intensivist in charge without any explicit standard of care beyond ... assessing costs and relevant outcomes as well as follow-up period vary considerably ICU, intensive care unit and resource consumption, the trade-off between input and output, costs and outcome,...
... Pavoni et al Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010, 18:24 ter understand the impact of morbidity and consequences of thermal injury and to evaluate clinical ... problems and by two patients who were unable to use their hands after the injury; seven patients with facial deformities and burn scars on the hands suffered moderate anxiety Pavoni et al Scandinavian ... clinicians in informing patients and caregivers On the basis of these data, we suggest that burn system look beyond the acute hospital phase and make efforts to provide careand psychological support...