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Ethical Issues: Futility Policies
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-03)
Futility, in general, is the inability to achieve an intended goal or outcome. Biomedical futility more specifically is a clinical judgment that, in light of the patient's current clinical circumstance, it is not physiologically ...
Ethical Issues: Treating Patients Without Permission
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-09)
Medical ethics is grounded by the notion that we must always respect the patient's right of self determination, which means that we should inform patients about what needs to be done and seek permission before doing it to ...
Ethical Issues: Saying I'm Sorry
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-06)
Patients respond more favorably and are more trusting of physicians who provide full disclosure about medical errors than physicians who are less forthright or purposely hold things back when things go wrong. But there is ...
Ethical Issues: Communication and Prevention
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-05)
Health illiteracy is a serious and growing problem in this country. According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) nearly half of all American adults (that's 90 million people) have difficulty understanding and using health ...
Ethical Issues: Tribute to Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D.
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-10)
Edmund Pellegrino's influence has spanned over 60 years of service. His insight and ability to articulate the importance of beneficence and trust through the healing relationship have continued to provide a grounding force ...
Health Literacy and Patient Satisfaction
(Center for Health Policy, University of Missouri - School of Medicine, 2008)
This Fact Sheet outlines patient satisfaction with health care as associated with health literacy.
Health Literacy Missouri
(Center for Health Policy, University of Missouri - School of Medicine, 2006)
As approved by the Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH) Board of Directors in 2006, Health Literacy Missouri (HLM) envisions a future in which the policies and practices of Missouri institutions and the public promote ...
Ethical Issues: DNR Revisited
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-02)
In most cultures, when making treatment decisions for adults, children, and neonates with end stage illness, there tends to be universal agreement that overly aggressive treatment should be discouraged when death is near ...
Ethical Issues: Ethical Research
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-12)
In academic medicine we are ruled by many masters—the need to see patients, the expectations of teaching, the desire (and expectation) to advance our careers through scholarship and research, and the ever present specter ...
Ethical Issues: Organ Donation and Procurement
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-01)
The list of people waiting for organ transplants continues to grow. According to the Missouri Hospital Association more than 80,000 men, women and children nationwide are waiting for new organs, including more than 1,800 ...
Ethical Issues: Engaging Patients
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-11)
The Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association initiated the Ethical Force Program in 1997. The purpose of E Force is to develop performance measures for ethical behavior and practices that can be useful ...
The Ethical Use of New Drugs
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-10)
The practice of medicine requires clinical judgments within the context of an inexact and very complicated science, the end result of which has profound implication for the welfare of patients. The ethical question for the ...
The uninsured in Missouri
(Center for Health Policy, University of Missouri - School of Medicine, 2003-05)
The uninsurance rate in Missouri has been
decreasing over the last decade, largely due to the implementation of the Missouri's Children's Health Insurance Plan (CHIP). This program expanded Medicaid services to many ...
Derivation and characterization of LIF and FGF2 dependent Porcine Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells [abstract]
(2010-02)
Authentic embryonic stem cells (ESC) have probably never been derived from the inner cell mass (ICM) of pig, despite over 25 years of effort. Recently, several groups, including ours, have reported derivation of induced ...
Functional Vomiting Patterns and Disorders in Infants, Children, and Adolescents
(2000)
This two page document lists functional vomiting patterns and disorders in infants, children, and adolescents.
Scientists vs. journalists?: obligations, risks and benefits of communicating science to the public
(2011)
Scientists, for many reasons, aren't always the best communicators. Yet, communication skills are vital when informing the public about new research and scientific developments. This process involves scientists, the ...
Skin
(William J. Krause, 2008-09)
Blog entry about human skin. Posted on September 6, 2008.
Capillaries
(William J. Krause, 2008-10)
Histology blog entry for October 10, 2008 about capillaries.
Health Literacy and Health Care Quality
(Center for Health Policy, University of Missouri - School of Medicine, 2008)
How health literacy affects the quality of health care.
Ear
(William J. Krause, 2009-01)
Histology blog entry for January 19, 2009 about the ear.