PELD Final - Central values/decision making + quiz review

Central Values

What are central to practice, should shape every aspect of professional practice and values are benefit of patient?

1. Patient’s Life & General Health

2. Patient’s Oral Health

3. Patient’s Autonomy

4. Dentist’s Preferred Practice Patterns

5. Esthetic Values

6. Efficiency in Use of Resources

What is the order of the central values of dental practice?

patient's oral health compromised

What is the effect if values lower in hierarchy are placed higher?

Platinum Rule

What is "Do unto others as they would have you do unto them... not as you would have them do unto you." ?

ethical behavior of a group

Actions of a leader have a strong impact on what?

Gather the relevant facts (dental, medical, social and all other clinical facts)

What occurs after identifying an ethical question?

to determine which conflict

Why is it important to identify all relevant values that play a role in case?

Ethical Sensitivity

The ability to recognize an ethical issue when one exists

Ethical Insensitivity

A failure to recognize that an ethical issue is present

Describe/define

What step of recognizing the problem/concern?
What is the dilemma
• Competing ethical principles or values
• More than one concern • Stakeholders

Dilemma

What is a difficult situation in which you have to choose between two or more alternatives?

Collect relevant information

What step?
Factual information from one or multiple sources.
-Review of the patient's history
-Review of office policy and protocol
Discuss with colleagues
-Refer to evidence-based science
-Values of the parties involved.( Parents or guardian, patient, patient's family, colleagues)

A willingness to let the
other person change you

What is real listening?

Identify possible alternatives

What step?
View the situation from many perspectives.
Identify potential risks and consequences

determine solution

What step?
Rank and justify the prioritization of alternatives

Access, Communicate, Decide

What does ACD stand for? (ACD Test for ethical decisions)

higher

A patient's oral health is valued high or lower than autonomy?

higher

A patient's oral health is valued high or lower than esthetic values?

central value ranks

Proceeding with only the patient's desire for the potential esthetic benefits of veneers and ignoring periodontal health would be in violation of

the patient's autonomy for treatment and esthetic concerns.

A patient's life, general health, and oral health should not be compromised by

What should we do? Why should we do it?

Ethics seeks to answer what two questions?

professional identity

What is it?
-Identification, qualities/what share with others in profession
-Has been shaped by historical members of profession
-Impacts how others view members of the profession

Beneficenece

A dentist who is disrespectful to office staff may be engaging in disruptive behavior in the workplace. This disruptive behavior violates which ADA Principle?

D (dentist should not release records to any dentist)

Under the ADA Code, it would be unethical to?

A. Give a copy of their radiographs directly to the patient

B.Release a copy of a patient’s radiographs if their account is not paid in full

C. Charge a patient for a copy of their radiographs

D. Send a copy of a patient’s radiographs to any other dentist who requests them

Patient's life and general health

According to Ozar's Central Values of Dental Practice, the value placed highest is?

nonmaleficence-should avoid

When considering the decision about whether or not to accept a friend or family member as a patient, the ADA Code offers what guidance about personal relationships with patients?

veracity

A dentist who recommends or performs an unnecessary dental procedure is engaging in unethical conduct which falls under which ADA Principle?

Beneficence

The Advisory Opinion involving dental
procedures during a public health emergency,
such as a pandemic,describes that a dentist' ethical obligation to the public may supersede the dentist's ethical obligations to individual patients. Which ADA principle?

Nonmaleficence

Some patients require premedication with an antibiotic prior to certain dental procedures.

Keeping up to date with knowledge, such as the current indications for the use of an

antibiotic for premedication prior to a dental procedure,would be an example of an obligation under which ADA Principle?

Autonomy and veracity

Which principles describe the dentist's role to involve the patient in treatment decisions

about the bone material and to

communicate without deception

about the composition of a bone graft?

Has the obligation to improve the health of the community with posts that advance knowledge rather than upsell services

The article (social media in dentistry) applies the ADA Principles in which of the following choices? The dentist: