Ethical challenges for accountable care organizations: a structured review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are proliferating as a solution to the cost crisis in American health care, and already involve as many as 31 million patients. ACOs hold clinicians, group practices, and in many circumstances hospitals financially accountable for reducing expenditures and improving their patients' health outcomes. The structure of health care affects the ethical issues arising in the practice of medicine; therefore, like all health care organizational structures, ACOs will experience ethical challenges. No framework exists to assist key ACO stakeholders in identifying or managing these challenges.

Methods

We conducted a structured review of the medical ACO literature using qualitative content analysis to inform identification of ethical chall

SUBMITTER: DeCamp M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4175644 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature