Ethics Terminology
- "double effect"
- advanced directive
- autonomy
- beneficence
- best interest standard
- brain death
- capacity
- cardiac death
- competence
- conscious objection
- DNR (do not resuscitate)
- emergency medical treatment & active labor act (EMTALA)
- ethical dilemma
- euthanasia (active and passive)
- futile care/ medical futility
- health care ethics or bioethics
- health insurance portability & accountability act (HIPAA)
- hippocratic oath
- informed consent (assent)
- justice (distributive)
- mechanical ventilation
- non-maleficence
- paternalism
- patient self-determination act
- persistent vegetative state (PVS)
- rights
- substituted judgment standard
- surrogate consent/ decision making
- virtue ethics
