Managing Healthcare Ethically - 9781567933444

Drawing together 62 ethics columns in Healthcare Executive magazine by healthcare executives, ethicists, scholars, educators, and consultants from the US, Nelson (community and family medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, and public administration, New York U.) and Hofmann, who has directed hospitals and is associated with a healthcare group, offer advice for healthcare managers and executives on topics relating to personal and organizational ethics decisions. Topics include coping with staff shortages, incentives, e-health, managing conflicts of interest, dealing with noncompliant patients, the executive's role as a patient advocate, malpractice, rural ethics, bioterrorism, hospital marketing, and end-of-life issues, as well as a section on the American College of Healthcare Executives Code of Ethics and ethics policy statements. This edition adds about forty new columns and focuses on ethical leadership, clinical issues, organization and management ethics, and ethics committees and programs, and has an expanded ACHE section. There is no index. Both Nelson and Hofmann are regular contributors to the column. Most columns in the book appeared after the January/February 2001 issue. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)