HCAD 650 WK 8 Patient Care: Ethics Committee Group 1

Required Chapters to Read by Ethics Committee Group:
Ethics Committee Group 1: Chapter 3 (pages 21-42) Medical Errors: Paradise Hills Medical Center

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Ethics Committee Group 1 Discussion Issues List by Group
At a minimum, each group should address the issues listed for the group as part of the discussion of law and ethics.
Ethics Committee Group 1 – Ch 3 Medical Error: Paradise Hills Medical Center Case
A study from The Tracks We Leave Ethics & Management Dilemmas in Health Care, 3rd. ed.

1. Discuss requirements for Informed consent for treatment. Assume one of the 22 patients have Limited English Proficiency (LEP). How would this impact informed consent?

2. Discuss patient rights and medical error disclosure.

3. Discuss medical negligence and vicarious liability and how they would apply.

4. Discuss fraud law and how it would apply.

 

5. Discuss the
• Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA)
• Patient Safety Quality Improvement Act (PSQIA),
• Patient Safety Organizations (PSO) and how it would apply to medical staff credentialing.

6. Discuss patient medical record access by the following:
• Credentialing committee request for patient records to re-credential providers,
• Discovery request for individual patient records of those with the high dose treatment and all oncology radiation patient records of the facility.
• What medical records could be released or shared?
• How should they be removed?
• When would the redaction of personal health information (PHI) apply to released records?
• What privileges would apply to limit release?
• When would work product exclusion from discovery apply?

7. Discuss how two professional Codes of Ethics apply.

8. Address other legal and ethical issues identified, if any