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As part of the tradition of administering comfort care, doctors have been supplying the causal agent of patients' deaths for decades. Physicians routinely and openly provide medication to terminally ill patients with the knowledge that it will have a "double effect"-reduce the patient's pain and hasten his death....
Jul 27, 2023 · NPR: “Medical Errors Are No. 3 Cause Of U.S. Deaths, Researchers Say.” Missing in the coverage was scrutiny of the researchers’ flawed methods, which involved extrapolating death rates from unrepresentative patient populations and making unsubstantiated causal connections between errors and deaths.
Aug 27, 2021 · A study from the UK reports that 3.6% of hospital deaths were due to preventable medical error; a similar study out of Norway reports 4.2%; and a meta-analysis of the problem published in the BMJ in 2019 concludes that at least one in 20 patients are affected by preventable patient harm, with 12% of this group suffering from permanent disability or dying because of this harm.
Dec 20, 2019 · The philosophy and practice of hospice care historically sought to provide a middle path in end-of-life care between vitalistic prolongation of life by medical technologies and physician intervention to hasten a patient’s death, to the ends of respecting the dignity of the patient as a person, minimizing pain, providing patient control over dying, and viewing dying as an opportunity for ...
- Courtney S Campbell
- 2019
Jul 23, 2021 · The new mathematical language of causal inference might look like this if it were to represent an observational study that evaluated the association between a new drug and an increase in patients’ lifespan: P (L|D) where P is probability, L, lifespan, D is the drug, and | is an operator that means “conditioned on.”
Oct 19, 2021 · Background Palliative sedation and analgesia are employed in patients with refractory and intractable symptoms at the end of life to reduce their suffering by lowering their level of consciousness. The doctrine of double effect, a philosophical principle that justifies doing a “good action” with a potentially “bad effect,” is frequently employed to provide an ethical justification for ...
Jan 30, 2021 · Through the years research publications have highlighted that behavioral modifications in healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses, residents, pharmacists) are essential to make sure medical treatments are safer.[5,10,11,12,13,14,15] A few recent examples include the successful implementation of point-of-care ultrasound (”POCUS”) in decreasing diagnostic errors and reducing time to ...
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