The HCOA Ethics Research Team includes Dr. Larry McCullough and Nancy Wilson, LMSW. This team is a founding component of a larger multi-departmental collaborative effort at Baylor addressing ethical and health care utilization issues. Areas of investigation addressed by the team involve ethical dilemmas, personal values, and decision making; issues surrounding life-sustaining technology; and health care utilization and quality of care. Specific efforts initiated by the team include projects designed to implement and test: a) the effectiveness of increased expression of values in long term care decision making, b) measurement of potential enhancement to well-being with increased patient autonomy, and c) mechanisms to increase the frequency of advanced directive discussions.

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