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Peer reviewedCsikai, Ellen L. – Health and Social Work, 2004
Ethical dilemmas are inherent in every health care setting. A sample of hospice social workers with no direct access to a hospice ethics committee (N = 110) was surveyed regarding ethical issues in hospice care, how the issues were managed, and the extent to which social workers participated in resolution of ethical dilemmas. Common issues…
Descriptors: Patients, Terminal Illness, Social Work, Hospices (Terminal Care)
Peer reviewedMesler, Mark A. – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1995
Based on nearly three years of participant-observation research in hospice settings, factors that interfere with the hospice philosophy of providing patient autonomy include efforts at symptom control, patient residence, patient disease state, and staff limit setting. Discusses examples, implications, and staff attempts at solutions. (JPS)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Death, Ethics, Higher Education
