Session Information
ASHP Summer Meeting 2007
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Improving Communication with Vulnerable Patient Populations: Recommendations for Pharmacy Practice from the AMA's Institute for Ethics, Ethical Force Program (Hot Topic)
Track:
Educational Sessions
Program Code: 103-L04
Date: Monday, June 25, 2007
Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location:
3024
SPEAKER(S):
Robert (Bob) Dickerson, MSHSA, RRT, Quality Improvement Coordinator, Department of Clinical Quality, Iowa Health-Des Moines
Dean Schillinger, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Primary Care Physician, University of California at San Francisco (UCSF),San Francisco General Hospital, Director, UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations
William H. Shrank, MD, MSHS, Instructor in Medicine, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
J. Russell Teagarden, RPh, MA, Vice President, Clinical Practices & Therapeutics, Medco Health Solutions, Inc., Franklin Lakes, NJ
Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH, Director, The Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL
Description
The Ethical Force Program™ is a multi-stakeholder group convened by the American Medical Association's Institute for Ethics, which aims to enhance ethics throughout the healthcare system. This session will focus on recommendations of its consensus report that defines specific expectations for ethical actions of health-care organizations to promote patient-centered communication. As it describes lessons learned from site visits, this session provides special focus on direct applications for health-system pharmacy, including specific performance expectations in nine specified domains, and on improving patient-centered communication with vulnerable populations.