Ongoing areas of research and programming
Clinical Ethics Seminars
Seminars meet monthly on the 4th Thursday of each month (3rd Thursday in November and December).
Medical Futility
Ethical issues regarding the question medical futility have been addressed on a number of occasions over a number of years and include the following initiatives:
Health Care Ethics Consortium of Georgia Task Force on Futility Report, 1997
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This program extended the conversation on futility into a discussion about specific approaches to these requests including institutional futility policies and pursuit of a state law.
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This task force was comprised of representatives from all Emory-affiliated hospitals. The intent had been to identify or develop common approaches to these difficult questions. The TF was unable to come to a consensus on how to best proceed, resulting no reportable outcome from this group.
Health Care Ethics Consortium of Georgia program, Futility Dilemmas: Where Do the Solutions Reside? November 17, 2008
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This report summarized the question of medical futility as existed at the time and proposed a number of recommendations for addressing clinical situations where futility was or could be an issue. The report strongly supported improved communications as a process for addressing this issue.
Emory-Affiliated Hospitals Joint Task Force on Medical Futility or Medically-Inappropriate Treatment, 2003-2004
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