Marion Danis, Christine Grady, Mariam Noorulhuda, Ben Krohmal, Henry Silverman, Lee Schwab, Hae Lin Cho, Melissa Goldstein, Paul Wakim
Patients and family members ( N = 671) were surveyed in five Mid-Atlantic U.S. hospitals to ascertain the number and kinds of ethical concerns they are presently experiencing or have previously experienced while being sick or receiving medical care. Seventy percent of participants had at least one (range 0-14) type of ethical concern or question. The most commonly experienced concerns pertained to being unsure how to plan ahead or complete an advance directive (29.4%), being unsure whether someone in the family was able to make their own decisions (29...
July 7, 2023: AJOB Empirical Bioethics