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ReviewTuberculosis and respiratory diseases2015

Ethics in the Intensive Care Unit.

Jae Young Moon, Ju-Ock Kim

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Review in Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. High-fidelity simulation programs in ICU-related ethical non-technical skills training: A narrative review.Journal of critical care medicine (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie din Targu-Mures) · 2026
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  5. Ethical Attitudes of Intensive Care Nurses during Clinical Practice and Affecting Factors.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Jae Young MoonDepartment of Internal Medicine, Chungnam National University Hospital, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea.
Ju-Ock KimDepartment of Internal Medicine, Chungnam National University Hospital, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The intensive care unit (ICU) is the most common place to die. Also, ethical conflicts among stakeholders occur frequently in the ICU. Thus, ICU clinicians should be competent in all aspects for ethical decision-making. Major sources of conflicts are behavioral issues, such as verbal abuse or poor communication between physicians and nurses, and end-of-life care issues including a lack of respect for the patient's autonomy. The ethical conflicts are significantly associated with the job strain and burn-out syndrome of healthcare workers, and consequently, may threaten the quality of care. To improve the quality of care, handling ethical conflicts properly is emerging as a vital and more comprehensive area. The ICU physicians themselves need to be more sensitive to behavioral conflicts and enable shared decision making in end-of-life care. At the same time, the institutions and administrators should develop their processes to find and resolve common ethical problems in their ICUs.

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BehaviorEthicsIntensive Care UnitsTerminal Care

Identifiers

PMID26175769
PMCPMC4499583

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