Can I trust them to do everything? The role of distrust in ethics committee consultations for conflict over life-sustaining treatment among Afro-Caribbean patients
| Autor: | Frederic Romain, Andrew M. Courtwright |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science) Critical Care Attitude of Health Personnel media_common.quotation_subject education Ethnic group Afro-Caribbean Trust Racism 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Ethnicity medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Psychiatry Decision Making Organizational health care economics and organizations media_common Ethics Consultation Ethics Committees 030505 public health Distrust Conflict of Interest Health Policy Medical record Conflict of interest Health Status Disparities United States humanities Black or African American Issues ethics and legal aspects Case-Control Studies Family medicine 0305 other medical science Psychology Medical Futility End-of-life care geographic locations |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Medical Ethics. 42:582-585 |
| ISSN: | 1473-4257 0306-6800 |
| Popis: | Background Distrust in the American healthcare system is common among Afro-Caribbeans but the role of this distrust in conflict over life-sustaining treatment is not well described. Objective To identify the ways that distrust manifests in ethics committee consultation for conflict over life-sustaining treatment among Afro-Caribbean patients. Methods This was a retrospective cohort study at a large academic hospital of all ethics committee consultations for life-sustaining treatment among Afro-Caribbean patients and their surrogates. We reviewed medical records and identified cases in which ethics consultants described distrust as playing a role in the conflict over life-sustaining treatment. Results Of the 169 ethics committee consultation cases for conflict over life-sustaining treatment, 11 (6.5%) involved patients who self-identified as Afro-Caribbean. Distrust played a role in several of these cases, with surrogates of three patients, in particular, illustrating the way that perceived heath disparities, past labelling and concerns about continued maltreatment generated distrust leading to conflict over life-sustaining treatment. Conclusions Exploring issues of distrust may help ethics consultants identify the source of conflict over life-sustaining treatment among Afro-Caribbean patients. |
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