RT Book, Section
A1 Jonsen, Albert R.
A1 Siegler, Mark
A1 Winslade, William J.
SR Print(0)
ID 1186991592
T1 Contextual Features
T2 Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, 9e
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260457544
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1186991592
RD 2024/04/19
AB This  topic  contains  items  that  are  not  usually  part  of  a  clinical  workup.  They  are,  however,  essential  to  the  description  and  resolution  of  a  case  in  clinical  ethics.  Contextual  features  address  the  ways  in  which  professional,  family,  religious,  financial,  legal,  and  institutional  factors  influence  clinical  decisions.  These  factors  are  the  context  in  which  the  clinical  case  occurs.  Although  clinical  ethics  focuses  on  the  medical  indications,  patient  preferences,  and  quality  of  life  in  a  particular  case  of  patient  care,  medical  decisions  are  not  simply  individual  choices  by  two  autonomous  agents  (the  physician  and  the  patient),  but  choices  that  are  influenced  and  constrained  by  the  context  in  which  they  take  place.  In  the  United  States,  there  are  approximately  40  million  inpatients  per  year  and  about  1.5  billion  outpatients  per  year.