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Ethical Climate and Proportionate Care

  • Ghent University Hospital

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on clinicians’ perspectives on disproportionate care, moral distress, and the concept of the ethical decision-making climate. The authors discuss how disproportionate care is perceived, empirically measured, and sometimes accepted as part of everyday clinical practice when end-of-life decisions must be made. The need for more open and honest dialogue, along with active leadership, mutual respect, and trust within the interprofessional team to mitigate moral distress and improve the ethical climate, remains a consistent theme in the actual health care landscape.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEthics in Intensive Care Medicine
EditorsAndrej Michalsen, Nicholas Sadovnikoff, Jozef Kesecioglu
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2023
Pages121-130
ISBN (Print)978-3-031-29389-4, 978-3-031-29392-4
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-031-29390-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
SeriesLessons from the ICU
ISSN2522-5928

Keywords

  • Burnout
  • Clinical ethics
  • Critical care
  • Ethical decision-making climate
  • Ethics
  • Intensive care medicine
  • Interprofessional teamwork
  • Moral distress

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