For which domains of ethics is the Ethical Force Program creating performance measures?
The Ethical Force Oversight Body selects individual domains of ethics based on their relevance to all participants in the health care system. In fact, Ethical Force research staff have recently performed a comprehensive review of existing ethics codes and policies in a variety of health care related institutions, in part to assist the Oversight Body in its selection of domains for performance measure development (for more information on this study, contact Ethical Force research staff at (312) 464-4698). The first 2 domains that have been selected for ethics performance measure development are (1) privacy and confidentiality protections in health care and (2) processes for designing health benefits and adjudicating coverage decisions. Each of these domains involves numerous parties to health care delivery: from unions, employers, and patients to practitioners, health plans, hospitals, and government agencies. And performing well in each of these domains is very important in building a
