1. An Ethics Framework for a Learning Health Care System: A Departure from Traditional Research Ethics and Clinical Ethics.
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Faden, Ruth R., Kass, Nancy E., Goodman, Steven N., Pronovost, Peter, Tunis, Sean, and Beauchamp, Tom L.
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LEARNING ,CONCEPTUAL structures ,DIGNITY ,HEALTH ,HEALTH services accessibility ,JUDGMENT (Psychology) ,MEDICAL care ,MEDICAL ethics ,QUALITY assurance ,RESEARCH ethics ,RESPECT ,INFORMATION resources ,DECISION making in clinical medicine ,PATIENTS' rights ,ETHICS - Abstract
Calls are increasing for American health care to be organized as a learning health care system, defined by the Institute of Medicine as a health care system 'in which knowledge generation is so embedded into the core of the practice of medicine that it is a natural outgrowth and product of the healthcare delivery process and leads to continual improvement in care.' We applaud this conception, and in this paper, we put forward a new ethics framework for it. No such framework has previously been articulated. The goals of our framework are twofold: to support the transformation to a learning health care system and to help ensure that learning activities carried out within such a system are conducted in an ethically acceptable fashion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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