Ethical evaluation in acute stroke decision-making.
J Eval Clin Pract
; 2023 Oct 05.
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em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-37798929
ABSTRACT
RATIONALE The evidentiary standards and epistemic models of clinical care, especially those of evidence-based medicine, are dissimilar to those used in philosophy and examination of how the two systems intersect may help clinicians make more informed treatment decisions. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
This paper examines the use of ethical frameworks in routine clinical decision-making, using the example of acute stroke treatment decisions to demonstrate that ethical evaluation is integral to clinical practice.METHOD:
Utilising acute stroke care as a lens through which to examine the phenomenon of ethical evaluation in medical practice, we offer a philosophical analysis of the presence of ethical evaluation in medicine. RESULTS ANDCONCLUSION:
We find that the medical establishment should embrace ethical evaluation as intrinsic to medical practice and that medical training and treatment guidelines should reflect this reality. Patients deserve clarity and transparency about how physicians make determinations about their treatment, and physicians should be prepared to offer explanations for those decisions.
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2023
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