Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A Guide for Clinicians

Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A Guide for Clinicians

Now in its Fifth Edition, this respected reference helps readers tackle the common and often challenging ethical issues that affect patient care. The book begins with a concise discussion of clinical ethics that provides the background information essential to understanding key ethical issues. Readers then explore a wide range of real-world ethical dilemmas, each accompanied by expert guidance on salient issues and how to approach them. The bookâ€™s two-color design improves retention of material for visual learners. An accompanying website lets readers access the full text, along with features designed to reinforce understanding and test knowledge.

New to the Fifth Edition:
This edition includes new discussions of ethical issues as they relate to clinical practice guidelines and evidence-based medicine, electronic medical records, genetic testing, and opioid prescription. The book also includes an increased focus on ethical issues in ambulatory care. Readers will also find more detailed analysis of cases, more examples of ethical reasoning, more highlight pages relating clinical ethics to emergency medicine, oncology, palliative care, and family medicine. Also new are discussions of quality improvement and use of advance care planning rather than advance directives.

This is the tablet version which does not include access to the supplemental content mentioned in the text.
Country USA
Manufacturer Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-03-11
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-03-11
Format	Kindle eBook

Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A Guide for Clinicians

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