Credentialing Clinical Ethics Consultants: Lessons to be Learned

Childs, Brian H.

doi:10.1007/s10730-009-9102-0

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“…While there is limited evidence on the extent to which the Core Competencies are applied by individual services, and whilst there is some concern that emphasis on competencies reflects the malign influence of managerialism and may divert CES from the primary goal of moral inquiry towards more institutional or bureaucratic goals (King, 1999;Bishop, Fanning, and Bliton, 2009), there is little doubt that debate about the competencies of CES has had a significant impact on the establishment of standards for CES services (Adams, 2009;Bishop, Fanning, and Bliton, 2009). A parallel development to developing practice standards to enhance quality has been the push to professionalise clinical ethics expertise (Tarzian, 2009;Childs, 2009;Frolic and PHEEP Steering Committee, 2012;Acres et al, 2012;Reel, 2012). For some, professionalization is not only necessary and desirable but also inevitable given the increasing emphasis on standards, quality and accountability, concerns about medical liability and the emergence of the patient safety movement (Acres et al, 2012).…”

Section: Optimizing the Quality Of Ces Servicesmentioning

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Inter-Organizational Networks in Health Care

Sheaff¹,

Schofield²

2016

Oxford Handbooks Online

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Inter-organizational networks have proliferated in health systems, as has network research, but coherent explanations relating the varieties of health network to their respective structures, activities and outcomes remain lacking. Focusing on their core productive processes and their governance structures, this chapter contrasts care networks with program networks. It compares these concepts with findings from some primary research on NHS health networks during 2005–10, and notes some implications for network theory and research. NHS networks’ dense, flat structures reflect these networks’ dual function as both care and as program networks. These findings are relevant to the “integrated care” networks developing in many health systems. The development of these networks appears, partly, to be a workaround for the obstacles that market and quasi-market health systems place in the way of coordinating complex care across multiple separate providers.

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Section: Optimizing the Quality Of Ces Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inter-Organizational Networks in Health Care

Sheaff¹,

Schofield²

2016

Oxford Handbooks Online

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“…Many contributors supported the need for standards and quality measures and acknowledged the shift toward the professionalization of clinical ethics consultants . Others accepted the need for standards but cautioned about losing the heterogeneity among consultants . Jeffrey Spike proposed the accreditation of training programs, rather than the certification of individual consultants, to account for the multidisciplinary nature of clinical ethics …”

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Quality AttestationforClinical Ethics Consultants:A Two-Step Model from the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

Kodish

Fins

Braddock

et al. 2013

Hastings Center Report

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Emerging Ethical Issues in Reproductive Medicine: Are Bioethics Educators Ready?

Farrell¹,

Metcalfe²,

McGowan³

et al. 2014

Hastings Center Report

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Advocates for the professionalization of clinical bioethics argue that bioethics professionals play an important role in contemporary medicine and patient care, especially when addressing complex ethical questions that arise in the delivery of reproductive medicine. For bioethics consultants to serve effectively, they need adequate training in the medical and ethical issues that patients and clinicians will face, and they need skills to facilitate effective dialog among all parties. Because clinical ethics consultation is a "high-stakes endeavor" that can acutely affect patient care, efforts are under way to ensure that bioethics consultants have the competence to provide such guidance. Yet to date, no studies have examined whether the training of bioethics consultants meets the needs of health care professionals who are on the front lines of such issues. In fact, limited information is available on the reproductive health issues that bioethics training programs address or the degree to which these programs meet the needs of patients confronting reproductive health decisions and their clinicians. It is therefore important to answer this key question: What are the primary ethical issues encountered in reproductive medicine that currently affect patient care? Equally important, are bioethics training programs prepared to address those issues? To begin to answer these questions, we conducted parallel surveys of directors of graduate bioethics training programs and obstetrician-gynecologists. The goal of this project is to lay the groundwork to establish a working partnership between bioethics educators and reproductive medicine practitioners to address the often troubling and frequently complex ethical issues in reproductive medicine.

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Credentialing Clinical Ethics Consultants: Lessons to be Learned

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Inter-Organizational Networks in Health Care

Inter-Organizational Networks in Health Care

Quality AttestationforClinical Ethics Consultants:A Two-Step Model from the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

Emerging Ethical Issues in Reproductive Medicine: Are Bioethics Educators Ready?

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