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Observational studyMedicine, health care, and philosophy2015

Novel ethical dilemmas arising in geriatric clinical practice.

Elisa Constanza Calleja-Sordo, Adalberto de Hoyos, Jorge Méndez-Jiménez, Nelly F Altamirano-Bustamante, Sergio Islas-Andrade, Alejandro Valderrama, Carmen García-Peña, Myriam M Altamirano-Bustamante

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Elisa Constanza Calleja-SordoGrupo transfuncional en ética clínica, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, IMSS, Av. Cuauhtémoc 330, Col. Doctores, 06720, Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
Adalberto de Hoyos
Jorge Méndez-Jiménez
Nelly F Altamirano-Bustamante
Sergio Islas-Andrade
Alejandro Valderrama
Carmen García-Peña
Myriam M Altamirano-Bustamante
Centro Medico Nacional Siglo XXI · MXInstituto Politécnico Nacional · MXUniversidad Insurgentes · MX

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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine empirically the state of the art of the medical care, when healthcare personal is confronted with ethical dilemmas related with the care they give to the geriatric population. An observational, longitudinal, prospective and qualitative study was conducted by analyzing the correlation between healthcare personnel-patient relationship, and ethical judgments regarding dilemmas that arise in daily clinical practice with geriatric patients. Mexican healthcare personnel with current active practices were asked to write up an ethical dilemma that arose frequently or that had impacted their medical practice. From the narrative input, we were able to draw up a database with 421 dilemmas, and those corresponding to patients 60 years and older were selected (n = 54, 12.8 %). The axiological analysis of the narrative dilemmas of geriatric patients was made using dialectical empiricism. The axiological analysis values found most frequently were classified into three groups: the impact of healthcare, the roles of the physician, and refusal of therapy; the healthcare role of educator, caring for the patients' life and the risk of imminent death where the values found more often. The persistence and universality of certain dilemmas in geriatrics calls for awareness and requires a good training in the ethical discernment of these dilemmas. This would help to improve substantially the care and the life quality of this population.

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Attitude of Health PersonnelEthics, ClinicalAgedConflict, PsychologicalFemaleGeriatricsHumansInterviews as TopicLongitudinal StudiesMaleMexicoMiddle AgedMoralsPatient Education as TopicPopulation DynamicsProfessional Role

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