Revista médica de Chile
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Revista médica de Chile · Jan 2016
[Ethical issues perceived by health care professionals working in chronic hemodialysis centers].
Clinical teams working at chronic hemodialysis centers (CHC) frequently have to face ethical problems, but there is no systematic approach to deal with them. ⋯ To improve the approach to ethical problems in CHC, it is necessary to improve training in clinical ethics, promote an effective dialogue between the patients, their families and health professionals, and follow their advance directives in case of cardiac arrest during treatment.