title: True values. While ethical decisionmaking and managed care aren't mutually exclusive, executives are struggling to find a common denominator.
abstract: Whether they're fulfilling a mission or just trying to avoid bad publicity, health care executives are facing a tough new world of deal- and decisionmaking based on managed care and the often murky area of ethics. Some are trying to solve the dilemma by developing a set of ethical guidelines from which to work. "It's an exercise in self-understanding," says one health care ethicist who's helping to write such guidelines. Ultimately, he says, it comes down to one question: "What are we really about?"
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authors.lastname: Appleby
mesh_terms: D003284:Contract Services / Q000592:standards; D032982:Contracts; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D004989:Ethics; D040861:Ethics, Business; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000592:standards*; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000592:standards*; D017057:Medically Uninsured; D014481:United States