Managing Conscientious Objections in Intensive Care Medicine
Publication Date: January 7, 2015
Background
Background
- A conscientious objection (CO) is a moral objection to providing or disclosing information about a legal, professionally accepted, and otherwise available medical service.
- Four policy recommendations are made for managing conscientious objections in intensive care medicine (Table 2). The recommendations are designed to balance two ethical goals: (1) to protect patients’ access to legal, professionally accepted, and otherwise available medical services, and (2) to protect clinician’s moral integrity.
Ethical Considerations
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...Ethically Relevant Considerations...
...ommodate COs Consideration 1: To protect clin...
Policy Recommendations
Policy Recommenda...
...Recommendations for Managing Conscienti...
Management
Management
...of Components of Institutional Ma...
...igure 1. An approach to managing consci...