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Ethical and Legal Issues

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Ethical and legal issues are common in long-term care and are separate, but integrally interrelated. Health care ethics is the application of values (patient, caregiver, and societal) to the process of clinical decision making. This process requires the intellectual and empathetic weighing of values, facts, and prognostications to produce a supportable decision. Clinicians often encounter competing values, e.g., the right of self-determination of an individual versus the interests of society as a whole, and must take into consideration the facts and the likelihood and consequences of various outcomes.

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  1. Family Medicine Department, Texas A&M University College of Medicine, 901 North Fisk #224, Brownwood, TX, 76801, USA

    David A. Smith

  2. St. John’s Clinic – Rolla Division, Administration, 1605 Martin Springs Drive, Suite 360b, Rolla, MO, 65401, USA

    Randall D. Huss

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  1. Abington Memorial Hospital, Old York Road 500, Jenkintown, 19046, Pennsylvania, USA

    Pamela Ann Fenstemacher

  2. Dept. Family & Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma, NE. 10th St. 900, Oklahoma City, 73104, Oklahoma, USA

    Peter Winn

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Smith, D.A., Huss, R.D. (2011). Ethical and Legal Issues. In: Fenstemacher, P., Winn, P. (eds) Long-Term Care Medicine. Current Clinical Practice. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-142-4_12

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