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Older patients with late‐stage COPD: Their illness experiences and involvement in decision‐making regarding mechanical ventilation and noninvasive ventilation

Heidi Jerpseth, Vegard Dahl, Per Nortvedt, Kristin Halvorsen

Journal of Clinical Nursing > 27 > 3-4 > 582 - 592

Aims and objectives To explore the illness experiences of older patients with late‐stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and to develop knowledge about how patients perceive their preferences to be taken into account in decision‐making processes concerning mechanical ventilation and/or noninvasive ventilation. Background Decisions about whether older patients with late‐stage chronic obstructive...

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Attitudes towards assisted dying are influenced by question wording and order: a survey experiment

Morten Magelssen, Magne Supphellen, Per Nortvedt, Lars Johan Materstvedt

BMC Medical Ethics > 2016 > 17 > 1 > 1-9

Background Surveys on attitudes towards assisted dying play an important role in informing public debate, policy and legislation. Unfortunately, surveys are often designed with insufficient attention to framing effects; that is, effects on the respondents’ stated attitudes caused by question wording and context. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate and measure such framing effects. Methods...

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Inadequate Treatment for Elderly Patients: Professional Norms and Tight Budgets Could Cause “Ageism” in Hospitals

Helge Skirbekk, Per Nortvedt

Health Care Analysis > 2014 > 22 > 2 > 192-201

We have studied ethical considerations of care among health professionals when treating and setting priorities for elderly patients in Norway. The views of medical doctors and nurses were analysed using qualitative methods. We conducted 21 in depth interviews and 3 focus group interviews in hospitals and general practices. Both doctors and nurses said they treated elderly patients different from younger...

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Justice and Proximity: Problems for an Ethics of Care

Marita Nordhaug, Per Nortvedt

Health Care Analysis > 2011 > 19 > 1 > 3-14

This paper aims at addressing some questions considering the conflicting normative claims of partiality, i.e. to provide for the caring needs of the particular patient, and impartial claims of treating all patients with a relevant need equally. This ethical conflict between different conceptions of moral responsibilities within professional ethics relates to debates between an ethics of care and an...

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Making a Difference: A Qualitative Study on Care and Priority Setting in Health Care

Helge Skirbekk, Per Nortvedt

Health Care Analysis > 2011 > 19 > 1 > 77-88

The focus of the study is the conflict between care and concern for particular patients, versus considerations that take impartial considerations of justice to be central to moral deliberations. To examine these questions we have conducted qualitative interviews with health professionals in Norwegian hospitals. We found a value norm that implicitly seemed to overrule all others, the norm of ‘making...

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Ethics of Care and Responsibility: Normative Fragments

Per Nortvedt

Health Care Analysis > 2011 > 19 > 1 > 1-2

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Family members’ experiences of “wait and see” as a communication strategy in end-of-life decisions

Ranveig Lind, Geir F. Lorem, Per Nortvedt, Olav Hevrøy

Intensive Care Medicine > 2011 > 37 > 7 > 1143-1150

Purpose The aim of this study is to examine family members’ experiences of end-of-life decision-making processes in Norwegian intensive care units (ICUs) to ascertain the degree to which they felt included in the decision-making process and whether they received necessary information. Were they asked about the patient’s preferences, and how did they view their role as family members in the decision-making...

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Clinical prioritizations and contextual constraints in nursing homes – a qualitative study

Åshild Slettebø, Marit Kirkevold, Berit Andersen, Reidar Pedersen, more

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences > 24 > 3 > 533 - 540

Scand J Caring Sci; 2010; 24; 533–540   Clinical prioritizations and contextual constraints in nursing homes ‐ a qualitative study Aim: The aim of the study was to describe nurses’ and physicians’ experiences of prioritization factors in nursing homes. Background: What are the experiences of health care personnel when prioritizing treatment and care for elderly residents in...

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Sensibility and clinical understanding

Per Nortvedt

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy > 2008 > 11 > 2 > 209-219

This paper argues that there is a dimension of human consciousness which allows for a pre-intentional and non-cognitive intuition of sensibility. A sensibility which allows for the vulnerability of the human other is by nature characterized by passivity and receptivity. Moreover, sensibility invokes the significance of relating to the human other in an affective way of being touched by his or her...

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Ethical decision making in neonatal units — The normative significance of vitality

Berit Støre Brinchmann, Per Nortvedt

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy > 2001 > 4 > 2 > 193-200

This article will be concerned with the phenomenon of vitality, which emerged as one of the main findings in a larger grounded theory study about life and death decisions in hospitals' neonatal units. Definite signs showing the new-born infant's energy and vigour contributed to the clinician's judgements about life expectancy and the continuation or termination of medical treatment. In this paper...

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