An Ethics Framework for a Learning Health Care System: A Departure from Traditional Research Ethics and Clinical Ethics

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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. © 2013 by The Hastings Center.

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Faden, R. R., Kass, N. E., Goodman, S. N., Pronovost, P., Tunis, S., & Beauchamp, T. L. (2013). An Ethics Framework for a Learning Health Care System: A Departure from Traditional Research Ethics and Clinical Ethics. Hastings Center Report, 43(SUPPL. 1). https://doi.org/10.1002/hast.134

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