Evaluate the Itturalde Vs Hilo Medical Center case. Describe the ethical issues that led to the malpractice case and explain why the issues are credited with causing the incident. Describe an ethical theory that help resolve the issue and provide safe quality experience for the patient. Select a physician-patient shared decision-making model and explain how it will provide a safe quality healthcare experience. Propose ethical guidelines that would have helped prevent the incident.
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Ethical theory :
Ethical theories can be seen as schools of thought when judging the rightness and wrong ness of a proposed action .
Deontology : it is an approach to ethics that focuses on the rightness or wrongness of actions themselves ,as opposed to the rightness or wrongness of the consequences of those actions .
In above question , these is a medical malpractice and effect is death of patient .
So the ethical theory justice is useful in this ethical issue .
Shared decision making is a let component of patient centered health care .it is a process in which clinicians and patient work together to make decisions and select tests ,treatments and care plans based on clinical evidence that balances Dhana and expected outcomes with patient preferences and values
Ethical guidelines :
Doctors should follow ethical principles to avoid medical issues .
Evaluate the Itturalde Vs Hilo Medical Center case. Describe the ethical issues that led to the...
Evaluate the Itturalde v. Hilo Medical Center case. Describe the ethical issues that led to the malpractice case and explain why the issues are credited with causing the incident. Describe an ethical theory that help resolve the issue and provide safe quality experience for the patient. Select a physician-patient shared decision-making model and explain how it will provide a safe quality healthcare experience. Propose ethical guidelines that would have helped prevent the incident.
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