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Faden, Ruth R.; Kass, Nancy E.; Goodman, Steven N.; Pronovost, Peter; Tunis, Sean; Beauchamp, Tom L.
The Hastings Center report, 01/2013, Volume: 43, Issue: s1Journal Article
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.
