Abstract
Background: Values are fundamental to practicing compassionate, ethical, and safe relationship-centered healthcare. Attending to these improves health outcomes, quality of care, and patient/clinician satisfaction, yet these values have not yet received the emphasis necessary to make them central to every healthcare encounter.
Objectives: 1) To describe work to date on the International Charter for Human Values in Healthcare; 2) to discuss translation of the Charter’s universal values into education, research, and practice; and 3) to discuss its uses in teaching humanism, compassion and professionalism.
Methods: An international working group of expert educators, clinicians, linguists, and researchers identified initial values that should be present in every healthcare interaction. The working group and four additional groups --National Academies of Practice (NAP) USA, International Conference on Communication in Healthcare, Interprofessional Patient-Centered Care Conference, American Academy on Communication in Healthcare Forum --identified values for all healthcare interactions and prioritized top values. The NAP group also prioritized top values for interprofessional interactions. Additional data was gathered via a Delphi process and two focus groups of Harvard Macy Institute scholars and faculty.
Results: Through iterative content analyses and consensus, we identified five categories of core human values that should be present in every healthcare interaction: Capacity for Compassion, Respect for Persons, Commitment to Integrity and Ethical Practice, Commitment to Excellence, and Justice in Healthcare. Through further consensus and Delphi methodology, we identified values within each category.
Implications: The International Charter for Human Values in Healthcare is a cooperative effort to restore core human values to healthcare around the world. Major healthcare and education partners have joined this international effort. We are working to develop methods to translate the Charter’s universal values into education (teaching, assessment, curricula), research and practice.
Objectives: 1) To describe work to date on the International Charter for Human Values in Healthcare; 2) to discuss translation of the Charter’s universal values into education, research, and practice; and 3) to discuss its uses in teaching humanism, compassion and professionalism.
Methods: An international working group of expert educators, clinicians, linguists, and researchers identified initial values that should be present in every healthcare interaction. The working group and four additional groups --National Academies of Practice (NAP) USA, International Conference on Communication in Healthcare, Interprofessional Patient-Centered Care Conference, American Academy on Communication in Healthcare Forum --identified values for all healthcare interactions and prioritized top values. The NAP group also prioritized top values for interprofessional interactions. Additional data was gathered via a Delphi process and two focus groups of Harvard Macy Institute scholars and faculty.
Results: Through iterative content analyses and consensus, we identified five categories of core human values that should be present in every healthcare interaction: Capacity for Compassion, Respect for Persons, Commitment to Integrity and Ethical Practice, Commitment to Excellence, and Justice in Healthcare. Through further consensus and Delphi methodology, we identified values within each category.
Implications: The International Charter for Human Values in Healthcare is a cooperative effort to restore core human values to healthcare around the world. Major healthcare and education partners have joined this international effort. We are working to develop methods to translate the Charter’s universal values into education (teaching, assessment, curricula), research and practice.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Presented - 12 Jul 2013 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 11th Interdisciplinary Communication, Medicine and Ethics Conference (COMET 2013) - University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Duration: 11 Jul 2013 → 13 Jul 2013 http://hub.hku.hk/bitstream/10722/187932/1/Content.pdf |
Conference
| Conference | 11th Interdisciplinary Communication, Medicine and Ethics Conference (COMET 2013) |
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| Place | Australia |
| City | Melbourne |
| Period | 11/07/13 → 13/07/13 |
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