An Open Brief One Year After the End of the AMA Journal of Ethics

—Christy Rentmeester, QHC Podcast host

Selected Important Topics, Questions, Resources

  1. How should we define illness and injury profiteering in the health sector?
  2. Which criteria should be used to distinguish health service delivery from heath care?
  3. Which criteria (eg, inclusiveness of access to better health outcomes) should be used to define what constitutes innovation in health service delivery?
  4. In response to the pharmaceuticalization of health care, what are good interprofessional education models for medicine and pharmacy working well together to promote responsible prescribing and deprescribing?

Use of the AGS Beers Criteria® is one approach to reducing harms of iatrogenic polypharmacy.

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