Ethics and Costs

Many complex problems facing today’s healthcare managers (in this scenario the Assistant Manager of a Home Health Care Agency) have a financial, legal, and ethical implications for their organization.

Keeping in mind the legitimate healthcare problem of Sara having TB, and then identify and discuss the financial, legal, and ethical implications associated with this problem. Which implication (i.e., financial, ethical, or legal) is the most important and why? Which is the least important and why?

Legal and Ethical Aspects of Health Care

Expectations: 1 page, 3 References from required reading

Required Reading

Ampel, N. M. (2015). T-SPOT.TB assay screening for latent TB infection among healthcare workers? NEJM Journal Watch.Infectious Diseases, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/nejm-jw.NA38769

Baussano, I., Nunn, P., Williams, B., Pivetta, E., Bugiani, M., & Scano, F. (2011). Tuberculosis among health care workers. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 17(3), 488–494. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3298382/

de Cuevas, R. M. A., Lawson, L., Al-Sonboli, N., Al-Aghbari, N., Arbide, I., Sherchand, J. B., … & Obasanya, J. (2016). Patients direct costs to undergo TB diagnosis. Infectious diseases of poverty, 5(1), 1.

Meuter, R. F., Gallois, C., Segalowitz, N. S., Ryder, A. G., & Hocking, J. (2015). Overcoming language barriers in healthcare: A protocol for investigating safe and effective communication when patients or clinicians use a second language. BMC health services research, 15(1), 1.

Rachel M Anderson, d. C., Lawson, L., Al-Sonboli, N., Al-Aghbari, N., Arbide, I., Sherchand, J. B., . . . S, B. S. (2016). Patients direct costs to undergo TB diagnosis. Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 5 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-016-0117-x

Vandersteegen, T., Marneffe, W., & Vandijck, D. (2015). Defensive medicine: Implications for clinical practice, patients and healthcare policy. Acta Clinica Belgica, 70(6), 396-397. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/2295333715Y.0000000037