Ethical Issues in Breast Cancer Screening Course

Ethical Issues in Breast Cancer (BC) Screening Course is organized by eRADIMAGING.

Dates:
Release Date: 8/25/2020
Expiration Date: 9/1/2026

Course Description:
Mammography screening has been shown to decrease breast cancer (BC) mortality but remains controversial with no unified recommendations. Issues surrounding overdiagnosis, affordability, access, and quality continue to impact patient care. Medical ethics involves using values, facts, and logic to decide the best course of clinical action and can be divided into 4 guiding principles: beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice. These principles impact healthcare decisions. Attention to health disparities in the United States originates in a fundamental commitment to the ethical principles of justice and respect for persons. Taken together, these principles hold medical professions to the ideal of fair and equitable distribution of resources and to the expectation of nondiscrimination. Looking at and evaluating the phenomenon of health disparities is an undertaking that has an inherent ethical basis. Healthcare disparities refer to differences in health and healthcare in groups that are linked by social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantages. Disparities occur across many dimensions, including race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, location, gender, disability status, and sexual orientation. In making healthcare decisions, providers must continuously evaluate the decisions they make and the impact they have on their patients and society.

Learning Objectives:
After reading this article, the participant should be able to:
• DEFINE the four guiding principles of medical ethics.
• DESCRIBE Healthy People 2020 mammography goals.
• EXPLAIN racial disparities related to breast cancer screening utilization and follow-up.
• LIST patient-related factors that impact racial disparities.

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