Journal
NURSING ETHICS
Volume 28, Issue 5, Pages 628-644Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0969733020968859
Keywords
Clinical ethics; community care; home care; literature review; ethical challenges
Funding
- Norwegian Directorate of Health
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The transfer of responsibilities from hospitals to community-based settings has resulted in home-based care providers having more tasks and responsibilities with limited resources. Ethical challenges in home-based care include autonomy, balancing ethical principles, intensity of care decisions, priority settings, truth-telling, and professional role balancing. These challenges are similar to those in institutional healthcare and social care settings, with some significant differences highlighted.
Because of the transfer of responsibility from hospitals to community-based settings, providers in home-based care have more responsibilities and a wider range of tasks and responsibilities than before, often with limited resources. The increased responsibilities and the complexity of tasks and patient groups may lead to several ethical challenges. A systematic search in the databases MEDLINE, CINAHL, and SveMed+ was carried out in February 2019 and August 2020. The research question was translated into a modified PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome) worksheet. A total of 40 articles were included. The review is conducted according to the Vancouver Protocol. The main findings from the systematic literature review show that ethical challenges experienced by healthcare and social care providers in home-based care are related to autonomy and balancing ethical principles, decisions regarding intensity of care, challenges related to priority settings, truth-telling, and balancing the professional role. Findings regarding ethical challenges within home-based care are in line with findings from institutional healthcare and social care settings. However, some significant differences from the institutional context are also highlighted.
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