Medical Ethics
EDC's
Center for Applied Ethics
and Professional Practice (CAEPP) has become a leader in the
field of medical ethics, especially around issues in end-of-life
care and pain management. In an interview, Mildred Solomon, director of CAEPP, outlines the center's belief in creating resources that build medical professionals' planning, communication, and assessment skills. Through innovative research, professional
education programs, curricula, and communications, this center is
helping to guide health professionals around the world as they confront
the difficult and constantly evolving challenges within medical
communities.
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TOUR EDC'S ONLINE
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Children Living with Life Threatening Conditions |
The Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care (IPPC) is aimed at enhancing family-centered care for children living with life-threatening conditions. IPPC’s comprehensive, interdisciplinary curriculum addresses knowledge, attitudes, and skills that health care professionals need in order to better serve children and families.
Visit the IPPC Web site 
Read a feature article about IPPC’s award winning curriculum videos |
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Health Care System Reform |
EDC is working with the Veterans Health Administration to develop an integrated ethics program that will facilitate the ethical decision making of health care professionals throughout its system.
Read a feature article about this approach to bioethics at the institutional level
Read an interview with Rebecca Jackson Stoeckle who directs the veterans project |
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End-of-Life Care |
Innovations in End-of-Life Care was an international peer-reviewed journal for leaders in end-of-life care published online by EDC from 1999-2003. Innovations focused on identifying effective and humane ways that health care institutions provide care to dying patients and their families, with a special emphasis on the administrative processes and organizational steps that were necessary for initiating and maintaining these improvements.
Read archived copies of Innovations in End-of-Life Care
Meeting the Challenge: Twelve Recommendations for Improving End-of-Life Care in Managed Care is a report prepared by EDC, under a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, that considers the ways in which various features of managed care might be harnessed to improve the care of patients near the end of life.
Read a copy of Meeting the Challenge: Twelve Recommendations for Improving End-of-Life Care in Managed Care (PDF file, Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
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Pain Management |
From 1995 to 1999, EDC hosted the PainLink Web site, which brought together an online community of health care practitioners who shared ideas and helped one another achieve specific improvements in pain management. The archived PainLink site provides a range of tools and information on effective pain management.
Visit the PainLink Web site
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