Ethical patient care : a casebook for geriatric health care teams / / edited by Mathy D. Mezey ... [et al.].

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Mezey, Mathy Doval.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xviii, 373 p.
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: An introduction to bioethics as it relates to teams and geriatrics /; Using this book as a teaching tool /; Ethics and cultures of care /; Professional attitudes toward end-of-life decision making /; Protecting the patient's voice on the team /; Guarding patients' secrets : clinicians' responsibility to protect patient confidentiality /; Conflicting interests : dilemmas of family decision making for patients, families, and teams /; Refusing to comply : what do you do when the interdisciplinary team plan doesn't work? /; Protecting patients : the special case of elder abuse and neglect /; Using ethics consultation to resolve team conflict /; Avoiding the dark side of geriatric teamwork /; Exploring responsibility, accountability, and authority in geriatric team performance /; The locus of care and its effect on the presentation of ethical conundrums /; Ethical dilemmas of team decisions in a cost-conscious environment / Joann Castle -- Duly compensated or compromised? : multiple providers and cross-institutional decision making / Kathryn Hyer, Lori A. Roscoe, and Bruce Robinson -- Transitions from setting to setting along the care continuum : the case for megateams / Judith L. Howe ... [et al.] -- Emerging ethical issues in geriatric team care / Peter J. Whitehouse.
• ISBN: 0801867703 (pbk. : alk. paper); 080186769X (alk. paper); 0801876524 (electronic bk.)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Mathy D. Mezey ... [et al.].

This book is designed to teach effective and responsible group decision making to clinicians working in teams to treat older patients. The editors use case studies to present ethical dilemmas that team members encounter.