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An ethical framework for integrating palliative care principles into the management of advanced chronic or terminal conditions – National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Australia 2011

Section 2: Ethical Values and Principles associated with Palliative Care (s. 6)

The ethical principles and values can be described as follows:

Clinical integrity refers to the importance of respecting all of a person’s values, needs and wishes in the context of health care. It thus requires continuity and integration of the best available care and treatment in order to bring genuine benefit to the person with an advanced chronic or terminal condition, and in a way that is just to all concerned.

Respect for persons requires that people’s wishes be respected and that they be helped to participate in decisions about their treatment or care, to the extent that they are informed, willing and able.

Justice requires that those who are ill and all other people involved in their care – families, carers, and even the wider community – are treated fairly and that limited resources are used responsibly and wisely.

Beneficence requires that the person’s changing needs and preferences about care and treatment options and sites of care are recognised, regularly reviewed and acted upon, so that the person may live as comfortably as possible in this final phase of their advanced chronic or terminal condition, with their inalienable human dignity always respected.