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How Should Technology-Dependent Patients' Care Be Managed Collaboratively to Avoid Turfing?
- Source :
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AMA Journal of Ethics . Dec2023, Vol. 25 Issue 12, p878-884. 7p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Technology-dependent patients require interventions (eg, tracheostomies, gastrostomy tubes, or total parenteral nutrition) to survive. Such patients are commonly "turfed" between general services or from subspecialty to general services within the hospital. This case commentary proposes several explanations for why technologydependent patients are particularly susceptible to turfing, including clinicians' lack of familiarity with managing patients' technology, bias and ableism, and quality-of-life quandaries. It also addresses ways to combat turfing of technology-dependent patients and proposes educational strategies for managing common problems in the care of technology-dependent patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23766980
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- AMA Journal of Ethics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 174004167
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2023.878