The language of antibiotic stewardship is often used to capture the moral importance of individual prescribers doing their part to combat antibiotic resistance. “Stewardship” as an ethics concept borrows from collective action problems—those that cannot be solved by individuals only—like…
Despite growth in numbers of organizational antimicrobial stewardship programs, antimicrobial resistance continues to escalate. Interprofessional education and collaboration are needed to make these programs appropriately responsive to the ethically and clinically complex needs of patients at the end of life…
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a looming pandemic whose poor health outcomes are unlikely to be equitably distributed. This article focuses on intersections between AMR and inequities in health care workplaces in the United States and identifies the following as key…
Despite mounting attention in recent years, health threats posed by antimicrobial resistance are not new. Antimicrobial resistance has dogged infectious disease treatment processes since the first modern antimicrobials were discovered.
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about how critical medicine supply chains are identified and secured. The featured guest is Dr Amy Cadwallader, the director of regulatory…
This commentary on a case considers consequences of a so-called “zero-risk” paradigm now common in psychiatric inpatient decision-making. Iatrogenic harms of this approach must be balanced against promoting patients’ safety and well-being. This article suggests how to collaboratively assess risk…
Since the Joint Commission shifted its focus to suicide mitigation strategy implementation in behavioral health units in 2007, examining modern design trends in historical context is more clinically and ethically important than ever. This article considers architectural evolutions in how…
Patients often report experiencing boredom during inpatient psychiatry stays. Because patients’ vulnerabilities and conditions can be exacerbated when they feel bored, this article considers ethical dimensions of inpatient units’ designs that limit patients’ autonomy or access to activities or interactions…
Health problems of global warming are daunting in severity and magnitude and will only get worse. Yet literacy about these problems is poor and plans to alleviate them are too early in development to be responsive to current levels of…
The environments in which we live affect individual and community risk for disease transmission and illness severity. Communities’ and neighborhoods’ waste stream management designs and health care organizations’ spatial and structural architecture also influence individuals’ and communities’ pathogenic vulnerabilities and…
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