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Evaluating interventions to improve ethical decision making in clinical practice : a review of the literature and reflections on the challenges posed

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Ignatowicz, Agnieszka, Slowther, Anne, Bassford, Christopher, Griffiths, Frances, Johnson, Samantha Ann and Rees, Karen (2022) Evaluating interventions to improve ethical decision making in clinical practice : a review of the literature and reflections on the challenges posed. Journal of Medical Ethics . doi:10.1136/medethics-2021-107966 (In Press)

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2021-107966

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Abstract

Since the 1980s, there has been an increasing acknowledgement of the importance of recognising the ethical dimension of clinical decision-making. Medical professional regulatory authorities in some countries now include ethical knowledge and practice in their required competencies for undergraduate and post graduate medical training. Educational interventions and clinical ethics support services have been developed to support and improve ethical decision making in clinical practice, but research evaluating the effectiveness of these interventions has been limited. We undertook a systematic review of the published literature on measures or models of evaluation used to assess the impact of interventions to improve ethical decision making in clinical care. We identified a range of measures to evaluate educational interventions, and one tool used to evaluate a clinical ethics support intervention. Most measures did not evaluate the key impact of interest, that is the quality of ethical decision making in real-world clinical practice. We describe the results of our review and reflect on the challenges of assessing ethical decision making in clinical practice that face both developers of educational and support interventions and the regulatory organisations that set and assess competency standards.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Medical ethics, Clinical medicine -- Decision making, Medicine -- Study and teaching -- Moral and ethical aspects
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Medical Ethics
Publisher: BMJ Group
ISSN: 0306-6800
Official Date: 3 March 2022
Dates:
DateEvent
3 March 2022Available
16 February 2022Accepted
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2021-107966
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: In Press
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): This article has been accepted for publication in Journal of Medical Ethics, 2022 following peer review, and the Version of Record can be accessed online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2021-107966 © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.
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RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
13/10/14[NIHR] National Institute for Health Researchhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000272

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