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Week 13 Healthcare Ethics Week 13 Journal Entry about Full o Week 13 Journal Entry about Full Disclosure Create Journal Entry Journa Journal Instructions GRAD Read about Full Disclosure and watch the video links within the Week 12 folder. You may also find other videos and journal articles that address full disclosure related to health care. This assignment is due on April 14, 2019 at 11:59 pm. CO Write a jourmal document that outlines different aspects of full disclosure in health care. E I 1. Provide a definition of full disclosure. 5 pts. 2. Decribe what a full disclosure process involve. 10 pts. 3. Describe the pros and cons of this patient focused program. 10 pts 4. Use data or articles you find to support your scholarly written response. Employ APA formating. Title page, scholarly writing, reference page 10 pts. NOTE: No abstract is required for this assignment. Ensure the document is saved as either MS Word (.doc) or a (.pdf) to ensure the document can be accessed for grading. Late assignments are not accepted in this course. Do not request an extension based upon Computer/ technical or incorrect file type issues/problems. All assignments must be submitted for grading via the BB journal using the correct file type and format. Emailing assignments is not acceptable in this course.

Answer 1

Full Disclosure definition:
1)Communication of a health care provider and a patient, family members, or the patient's proxy that acknowledges the occurrence of an error.
2)Discusses what happened
3)Describes the link between the error and outcomes in a manner that is meaningful to the patient
4)Maintaining the transparency in the treatment being provided by the Healthcare provider to the patient.
5)Explaining from the admission till the discharge in a manner that is understandable by the family members.

Process involved in full disclosure:
1)the Healthcare provider should give the information on timely process that is reasonably possible.
2) should be empathetic
3) non punitive blame free culture
4) have tolerance to patients reaction
5) communication is an ongoing process so they have to communicate regularly
6) speak in such a way that the patient, family members everyone understands what is actually happening in the way that they can understand.
7) that should be transparency
8) the Healthcare provider providing the information should be free of fear and should explain everything.
9)the provider should give the answers for the questions such as who, what, when, where and how.
10) ensures a high quality Healthcare.

The pros and cons:
Pros
1)this enhances of very good quality of care.
2) transparency of the care provided to the patient.
3) ongoing Communication on timely process
4) due to the non punitive blame free culture there is a great trust developed between the Healthcare provided on the patient.
5)errors in the Healthcare also disclosed easily
Cons
1) fear of retribution.
2)fear of lawsuits.
3) decreased success rate of crisis management plan as it is disclosed earlier to the patient.
4) intolerance to patients reaction
5)fear in disclosing the medical errors happened to the patient
6) patient after hearing his condition may go to depression and other sign such as loneliness.

The references and articles:
the American College of obstetrics and gynaecology article number 681 December 2016 which was reaffirmed in 2019

Gallagher TH, Waterman AD, Ebers AG, Fraser VJ, Levinson W. Patients’ and physicians’ attitudes regarding the disclosure of medical errors. JAMA 2003;289:1001–7. [PubMed] [Full Text] ⇦

Mazor KM, Simon SR, Yood RA, Martinson BC, Gunter MJ, Reed GW, et al. Health plan members’ views about disclosure of medical errors. Ann Intern Med 2004;140:409–18. [PubMed] [Full Text] ⇦

Vincent C, Young M, Phillips A. Why do people sue doctors? A study of patients and relatives taking legal action. Lancet 1994;343:1609–13. [PubMed] ⇦

Beckman HB, Markakis KM, Suchman AL, Frankel RM. The doctor–patient relationship and malpractice. Lessons from plaintiff depositions. Arch Intern Med 1994;154:1365–70. [PubMed] ⇦

Weiss PM, Miranda F. Transparency, apology and disclosure of adverse outcomes. Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am 2008;35:53–62, viii. [PubMed] ⇦

Helmchen LA, Richards MR, McDonald TB. How does routine disclosure of medical error affect patients’ propensity to sue and their assessment of provider quality? Evidence from survey data. Med Care 2010;48(11):955–61. [PubMed] ⇦