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- Title
Factors Associated with the Timing and Patient Outcomes of Clinical Ethics Consultation in a Catholic Health Care System.
- Authors
Homan, Mary E.
- Abstract
Little is known about how certain patient characteristics can affect the timing of an ethics consultation, which has been hypothesized to affect patient length of stay. This study assessed how specific patient characteristics affect the timing of an ethics consultation, namely, age (over 65 years), race, Medicaid status, the presence of a living will, the presence of a health care proxy, and the absence of decisional capacity. Moving beyond the typical caseseries evaluation of an ethics consultation service, this study used an innovative approach to model how predisposing, enabling, and need factors affect health behavior and subsequently affect health outcomes for patients who received an ethics consultation at a Catholic health care system in Oklahoma.
- Subjects
CATHOLIC hospitals; MEDICAL ethics consultation; BIOETHICS; HEALTH outcome assessment; EVALUATION of medical care
- Publication
National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 1, p71
- ISSN
1532-5490
- Publication type
Article