Managing Conscientious Objections in Intensive Care Medicine
Publication Date: January 7, 2015
Background
Background
A conscientious objection (CO) is a moral objection to providing or disclosing information about a legal, professionally accepted, and otherwise available medical service.
Four policy recommendations are made for managing conscientious objections in intensive care medicine (Table 2). The recommendations are designed to balance two ethical goals: (1) to protect patients’ access to legal, professionally accepted, and otherwise available medical services, and (2) to protect clinician’s moral integrity.
Four policy recommendations are made for managing conscientious objections in intensive care medicine (Table 2). The recommendations are designed to balance two ethical goals: (1) to protect patients’ access to legal, professionally accepted, and otherwise available medical services, and (2) to protect clinician’s moral integrity.
Ethical Considerations
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...1. Ethically Relevant Considerations in the Analy...
Reasons to accommodate COs Consideration 1:...
Policy Recommendations
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...able 2. Policy Recommendations for Managing Consc...
Management
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...Summary of Components of Institutio...
...approach to managing conscientious object...