Preventing and resolving ethical conflicts: more help for policy makers.
Institutional policy makers have a useful resource in the "Joint Statement on Preventing and Resolving Ethical Conflicts Involving Healthcare Providers and Persons Receiving Care". Yet, some aspects of the joint statement pose challenges for institutional policy development and merit further reflection. With the aim of clarifying and augmenting the recommendations in the joint statement, this paper gives additional guidance on the issues of benefit, power imbalance, and legitimate decisional authority.
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Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University, 5849 University Ave., Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4H7.
D002170:Canada; D016265:Conflict of Interest; D003657:Decision Making; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D016134:Organizational Policy; D005791:Patient Care / Q000592:standards*; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000592:standards; D012954:Societies, Hospital; D012955:Societies, Medical; D012956:Societies, Nursing