A framework for ethical decision making in neonatal care

A framework for ethical decision making in neonatal intensive care.

UNLABELLED Intensive care for neonates with high risks of severe impairment and the possibility of a prolonged dying process represents a frequent ethical issue in neonatal units. The aim of this paper is to present a framework for structured decision making that has been developed in a neonatal intensive care unit and to demonstrate its impact on the healthcare team and on survival of critical...

Reinforcement Learning as a Framework for Ethical Decision Making

Emerging AI systems will be making more and more decisions that impact the lives of humans in a significant way. It is essential, then, that these AI systems make decisions that take into account the desires, goals, and preferences of other people, while simultaneously learning about what those preferences are. In this work, we argue that the reinforcementlearning framework achieves the appropr...

Decision making framework for utsourcing activities in the banking system

The outsourcing of financial services has been growing during last decades.Inspite of expanding managers awareness about this subject,most of outsourcing projects have been lost due to qualifative decision critera and ignorance of environmental circumstances. The purpose of research is to design a model for making decision about outaourcing activities in banking system.From the point of purpos...

Ethical dilemmas in decision making at limits of neonatal viability

The survival rate for extremely preterm infants has improved over the last two decades. Although the incidence of such births is about 2%, the impact of preterm birth on these infants, their families, health-care providers, and society is profound. The birth of an extremely low birth weight (ELBW) and early gestational age infant poses complex medical, social, and ethical challenges to the fami...

A Tragic Miscommunication: Ethical Decision Making in Burns Care