2011
DOI: 10.5222/jtaics.2011.115
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Justice in Intensive Care: What Admission/Discharge Criteria are used by Intensive Care Practitioners in Turkey?

Abstract: ÖZETAmaç: Türkiye'de yoğun bakım çalışanlarının Yoğun Bakım Ünitesine (YBÜ) hasta kabul/taburcu kararlarında kullandıkları ölçütlerin belirlenmesidir.Gereç ve Yöntem: Bu çalışma 2004-2006 yıllarında 3 ulusal kongrede ve e-posta grubunda anket formuyla yürütül-dü. Yirmi ölçüt içeren form araştırmacılar tarafından hazırlandı. YBÜ çalışanlarının, karar alırken verdiği öncelikler tıbbi ve toplumsal yarar ile sosyal değer başlıklarında sorgulandı. Yanıtlar ile YBÜ çalışanlarının kişisel ve mesleki özellikleri-nin i… Show more

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“…The fact that nurses value the quality of life expected by the patient and their relatives as equal to that expected by the health professionals, is an encouraging and stimulating finding in terms of making shared decisions in the EOL process. In a Turkey‐based study aiming to investigate the criteria in patient admission and discharge in ICUs, the quality of life that the patient expected for him/herself was set as a vital criterion (Akpınar and Ersoy, ). In this study, 25·7% of the nurses deemed the nurses' and medical teams' religious beliefs as relevant to the EOL decision‐making process.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The fact that nurses value the quality of life expected by the patient and their relatives as equal to that expected by the health professionals, is an encouraging and stimulating finding in terms of making shared decisions in the EOL process. In a Turkey‐based study aiming to investigate the criteria in patient admission and discharge in ICUs, the quality of life that the patient expected for him/herself was set as a vital criterion (Akpınar and Ersoy, ). In this study, 25·7% of the nurses deemed the nurses' and medical teams' religious beliefs as relevant to the EOL decision‐making process.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These findings signify an ethical concern in that the interference of the nurses' and medical team's religious beliefs may handicap professional independence and clash with professionalism (Keenan et al , ; Burns et al , ; Latour et al , ; Langley et al , ). In making life sustaining treatment decisions from an ethical viewpoint, the consideration of the quality of life for the patient, the prognosis for the disease, the likelihood of further damages to the patient, deterioration of his/her condition, and legal issues all justify a sense of responsible professionalism (Burns et al , ; Akpınar and Ersoy, ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In fact, in literature some non-medical discriminative unfair criteria have been reported to be effective such as expected after treatment life quality, the chance of scientific progress, the job of patient, the existence of disabled people who patient supports leaving behind many ethical problems. 23 Ethical studies emphasizes the application of the fourth principle of justice in resource scarcity or public health crises with a strategy of distribution of sources according to need and utilitarian approach of maximization of benefit. 18,19,24 After considering the arguments above, widely accepted ethical measures for any pandemic, which are surviving probability, discharge period expectancy and life-cycle principle (years to live by reaching an equality in individuals' whole life-cycle) will be used in the design of the decision algorithm.…”
Section: Medical Ethicsmentioning
confidence: 99%