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CME

Who Should Get What? Mammography and the Stewardship of Health Care Resources

  • Authors: Kathy Faber-Langendoen, MD; Lois Snyder, JD
  • CME Released: 3/15/2012
  • THIS ACTIVITY HAS EXPIRED FOR CREDIT
  • Valid for credit through: 3/15/2013
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Target Audience and Goal Statement

This activity is intended for primary care clinicians, gynecologists, family care physicians, and other health care professionals making decisions regarding ordering screening mammography.

The goal of this activity is to review the scientific basis and ethical principles underlying decisions regarding ordering screening mammography.

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe the scientific evidence underlying decisions regarding performing mammography in a given patient
  2. Describe ethical considerations regarding performing mammography in a given patient
  3. Describe defensible positions when the primacy of patient welfare, patient autonomy, and social justice are at odds with one another in mammography decisions


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Author(s)

  • Kathy Faber-Langendoen, MD

    Professor; Chair of Bioethics and Humanities; Director, Ethics Consult Service, SUNY Upstate, Syracuse, New York

    Disclosures

    Disclosure:Kathy Faber-Langendoen, MD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

  • Lois Snyder, JD

    Director, Center for Ethics and Professionalism, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Lois Snyder, JD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Editor

  • Lois Snyder, JD

    Director, Center for Ethics and Professionalism, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Lois Snyder, JD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

CME Author

  • Laurie Barclay, MD

    Freelance writer and reviewer, Medscape, LLC

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Laurie Barclay, MD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

CME Reviewer(s)

  • Nafeez Zawahir, MD

    CME Clinical Director, Medscape, LLC

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Nafeez Zawahir, MD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

  • Sarah Fleischman

    CME Program Manager, Medscape, LLC

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Sarah Fleischman has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.


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CME

Who Should Get What? Mammography and the Stewardship of Health Care Resources

Authors: Kathy Faber-Langendoen, MD; Lois Snyder, JDFaculty and Disclosures
THIS ACTIVITY HAS EXPIRED FOR CREDIT

CME Released: 3/15/2012

Valid for credit through: 3/15/2013

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Introduction

This case study is one in a series with commentaries by the American College of Physician's Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights Committee and the Center for Ethics and Professionalism. The series uses hypothetical examples to elaborate on controversial or subtle aspects of issues not addressed in detail in the College's Ethics Manual, the Physician's Charter on professionalism, or other College position statements. The sixth edition of the ACP's Ethics Manual, the Physician's Charter, and additional College policies on ethics, professionalism, and human rights issues are available at http://www.acponline.org/ethics/ethics_man.htm or by contacting the Center for Ethics and Professionalism at 215/351-2839.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Case History
  3. Commentary
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