collection: MODULE 2 MODULE 3 MODULE 4 ETHICS ISSUE 2: Professionalism in Patient Care—Truth Telling 2. Ethical 3. Ethical Standard 4. Best Ethics 5. Metric 6. Current Ethics 1. Ethics Issue Standard Source(s) Description(s) with Practice Practice “Should” Exclusions “Is” The quality manager VHA Handbook There is an Adverse events that Numerator: for surgical services 1004.08 Disclosure of unwavering ethical cause harm to found a number of Adverse Events to obligation to disclose patients on surgical instances in which Patients to patients harmful services should be adverse events that adverse events that disclosed to the caused harm that have been sustained patient or personal should have been in the course of care, representative [unless disclosed to patients including cases where patient is deceased, or personal the harm may not be incapacitated, or __________________ representatives were obvious, or where otherwise unable to not disclosed. there is potential for take part in the Denominator: harm to occur in the process, and there is future. no personal representative]. Exclusion(s): Patient is deceased, incapacitated, or Method: otherwise unable to take part in the process, and there is Sample size: no personal
collection: MODULE 2 MODULE 3 MODULE 4 ETHICS ISSUE 2: Professionalism in Patient Care—Truth Telling 1. Ethics Issue 2. Ethical Standard Source(s) 3. Ethical Standard Description(s) with Exclusions 4. Best Ethics Practice “Should” 5. Metric 6. Current Ethics Practice “Is” The quality manager for surgical services found a number of instances in which adverse events that caused harm that should have been disclosed to patients or personal representatives were not disclosed. VHA Handbook 1004.08 Disclosure of Adverse Events to Patients There is an unwavering ethical obligation to disclose to patients harmful adverse events that have been sustained in the course of care, including cases where the harm may not be obvious, or where there is potential for harm to occur in the future. Exclusion(s): Patient is deceased, incapacitated, or otherwise unable to take part in the process, and there is no personal Adverse events that cause harm to patients on surgical services should be disclosed to the patient or personal representative [unless patient is deceased, incapacitated, or otherwise unable to take part in the process, and there is no personal representative]. Numerator: __________________ Denominator: Method: Sample size:
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