Table 1 Top 10 ethical challenges facing Canadians in health care
From: Top 10 health care ethics challenges facing the public: views of Toronto bioethicists
Rank | Scenario | Score |
|---|---|---|
1 | Disagreement between patients/families and health care professionals about treatment decisions | 113 |
2 | Waiting lists | 102 |
3 | Access to needed health care resources for the aged, chronically ill and mentally ill | 89 |
4 | Shortage of family physicians or primary care teams in both rural and urban settings | 82 |
5 | Medical error | 76 |
6 | Withholding/withdrawing life sustaining treatment in the context of terminal or serious illness | 56 |
7 | Achieving informed consent | 43 |
8 | Ethical issues related to subject participation in research | 40 |
9 | Substitute decision-making | 38 |
10 | The ethics of surgical innovation and incorporating new technologies for patient care | 21 |