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Scroll through the list below or perform a Search on a particular health care ethics topic to find related articles, publications, etc. on the Center's website.
NET Summaries: transcripts of National Ethics Teleconferences (NET calls).
NEC Reports Prior to 2000: early reports produced by the National Ethics Committee.
news@vhaethics: the Ethics Center's former newsletter.
[Note: This publication has been replaced by Update (news) and IN fOCUS (ethics content).]
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NET Summaries
Ethical Considerations in Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain Management (November 2005) [Word]
Shared Medical Appointments: Ethical Concerns (October 2005) [Word]
CASES: A New Approach to Ethics Consultation (September 2005) [Word]
Privacy, Safety and Patient Social Security Numbers: Ethics Concerns (July 2005) [Word]
What Does DNR Really Mean? (June 2005) [Word]
The Ethical Duty to Protect Third Parties from Dangerous Patients (April 2005) [Word]
Terminal Extubation: Ethics Perspectives (March 2005) [Word]
Disclosing Patients' Protected Health Information (February 2005) [Word]
The IntegratedEthics Initiative: What It Means for Your Facility (January 2005) [Word]
Highlights from the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 2004 Annual Meeting (November 2004) [Word]
Life Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State: Implications of the March 2004 Papal Allocution for VHA Health Care (October 2004) [Word]
National Ethics Committee Report, Online Patient-Clinician Messaging: Fundamentals of Ethical Practice (September 2004) [Word]
Clinical Use of Placebo: An Ethics Analysis (July 2004) [Word]
Informed Consent for HIV Testing: Ethical Issues (June 2004) [Word]
Ethical Considerations When Treating Erectile Dysfunction in Patients with Sexually Transmissible Diseases (May 2004) [Word]
Ethical Principles at the Foundation of JCAHO's Ethics, Rights, and Responsibilities Standards (April 2004) [Word]
Should Patients be Able to Refuse Care by House Officers or Trainees? (March 2004) [Word]
Copying, Pasting, and Duplicating in the Electronic Medical Record: An Ethical Analysis (February 2004) [Word]
National Ethics Committee Report: Gifts to Health Care Professionals from the Pharmaceutical Industry (January 2004) [Word]
Practicing Medical Procedures on the Newly Dead (November 2003) [Word]
A Personal Reflection on the Evolution of Ethics in VHA (October 2003) [Word]
National Ethics Committee Report: Ethical Boundaries in the Patient Clinician Relationship (September 2003) [Word]
Cultures and Persons, Patients and Caregivers: Ethical Obligations and Culturally Competent Care (August 2003) [Word]
The Ethics of Tissue Banking for Future Genetic Research (July 2003) [Word]
Health Care Ethics Issues Raised by SARS (June 2003) [Word]
Ethical Issues in Advance Directives for Behavioral Health Care (May 2003) [Word]
National Ethics Committee Report: Disclosing Adverse Events to Patients (April 2003) [Word]
Strategies to Make Advance Care Planning More Effective: Best Practices (March 2003) [Word]
Preparing for a JCAHO Visit: Patient Rights and Organization Ethics Standards Ethics Component of a JCAHO Survey (February 2003) [Word]
Informed Consent Policy Revision (January and February 2003) [Word]
An Ethical Analysis of Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (December 2002) [Word]
Ten Myths About Decision-Making Capacity (November 2002) [Word]
Source Patient HIV Testing in Patients who Lack Decision-Making Capacity (October 2002) [Word]
Recommendations for the Ethical Conduct of Quality Improvement (September 2002) [Word]
Terminal Sedation: An Open Discussion (August 2002) [Word]
Ethical Priority of Decedent's vs. Family's Wishes in Organ Donation (July 2002) [Word]
The Conscience Clause (June 2002) [Word]
Core Competencies for Ethics Consultation (May 2002) [Word]
Disaster Medicine: Unique Ethical Challenges (April 2002) [Word]
Do Not Resuscitate Policy Revision: Controversial Topics (March 2002) [Word]
Provider Reporting of Impaired or Potentially Impaired Drivers (February 2002) [Word]
Informed Consent Policy Revision: Medical Decision Making in Patients Without Surrogates (January 2002) [Word]
Evaluation of Ethics Consultation Activities: Grappling with the Bear (December 2001) [Word]
Home Oxygen for Patients Who Smoke: Prescription vs. Proscription (October 2001) [Word]
Managing 'Difficult' or 'Non-Compliant' Patients: Ethical Challenges (September 2001)
Family Presence During Resuscitation (August 2001) [Word]
The Relationship Between Ethics and Compliance and Business Integrity (July 2001) [Word]
Recent Reports form the VHA National Ethics Committee: DNR Orders and Medical Futility and Advance Proxy Planning (June 2001) [Word]
Preparing for a JCAHO Visit: Patients' Rights and Organizational Ethics Standards (May 2001) [Word]
Notification of Patients Potentially Exposed to Mad Cow Disease Through Prior Blood Transfusion: Testing the Limits of Full Disclosure (April 2001) [Word]
Common Pitfalls in Determining Decision-Making Capacity-Live from the National Ethics Committee Meeting (March 2001) [Word]
Access to VA Databases for Research Purposes (February 2001) [Word]
Privacy Requirements During the Organ Donation Process (January 2001) [Word]
Informed Consent for IV Contrast Administration (January 2001) [Word]
DNR Orders and the Electronic Medical Record (December 2000) [Word]
NEC Reports Prior to 2000
Futility Guidelines: A Resource for Decisions about Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment [PDF]
Allocation of Expensive Medications [PDF]
Ethical Considerations in Equitable Allocation and Distribution of Limited Health Care Resources [PDF]
Guidelines for the Allocation of Unproved Treatments [PDF]
Surrogate-Written Advance Directives [PDF]
Ethical Issues in Long-Term Care [PDF]
Physician-Assisted Suicide [PDF]
Ethical Considerations in Research: Participants with Impaired Consent Capacity [PDF]
Ethics Consultation on Certain Questions of Enrollment [PDF]
Protection Against "Gag Rules:" Safeguarding Provider-Patient Relationships [PDF]
Relief of Patients' Suffering: An Ethical Overview of a Practical Responsibility [PDF]
Ethical Considerations for a Multicultural Clinical Workforce [PDF]
Professional Conflicts of Interest for VHA Clinicians [PDF]
Ethics Advisory Committees [PDF]
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