Abstract
Calls are increasing for American health care to be organized as a learning health care system, defined by the Institute of Medicine as a health care system "in which knowledge generation is so embedded into the core of the practice of medicine that it is a natural outgrowth and product of the healthcare delivery process and leads to continual improvement in care." We applaud this conception, and in this paper, we put forward a new ethics framework for it. No such framework has previously been articulated. The goals of our framework are twofold: to support the transformation to a learning health care system and to help ensure that learning activities carried out within such a system are conducted in an ethically acceptable fashion.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | S16-S27 |
Journal | Hastings Center Report |
Volume | 43 |
Issue number | SUPPL. 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2013 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health(social science)
- Issues, ethics and legal aspects
- Philosophy
- Health Policy