Daniel P Sulmasy
Biographic Data
| ID | 5540179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel P Sulmasy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel P |
| FAMILY NAME | Sulmasy |
| SIGNATURE | SULMASY D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Ethics of Heart Donation After the Circulatory Determination of Death
In 2023, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) organized a workshop to identify research gap areas in organ donation after circulatory determination of death (DCDD). We present the findings of the DCDD ethics working group. Heart DCDD, as all DCDD, may disrupt optimal end‐of‐life care. Irrespective of organ donation, research opportunities include identifying which processes of withdrawal of life‐sustaining therapy offer optimum p…
The virtues and the vices of the outrageous
Controversial arguments are controversial
Spirituality in Serious Illness and Health
Importance: Despite growing evidence, the role of spirituality in serious illness and health has not been systematically assessed. Objective: To review evidence concerning spirituality in serious illness and health and to identify implications for patient care and health outcomes. Evidence Review: Searches of PubMed, PsycINFO, and Web of Science identified articles with evidence addressing spirituality in serious illness or health, published Janu…
Life‐Years & Rationing in the Covid‐19 Pandemic
Prominent bioethicists have promoted the preservation of life‐years as a rationing strategy in response to the Covid‐19 pandemic. Yet the philosophical justification for maximizing life‐years is underdeveloped and has a complex history that is not reflected in recent literature. In this article, we offer a critical investigation of the use of life‐years, arguing that evidence of public support for the life‐years approach is thin and that organ tr…
ICU Care in a Pandemic
This letter to the editor responds to commentaries in the September‐October 2021issue of the Hastings Center Report by Douglas B. White and Bernard Lo, by Govind Persad, and by Virginia A. Brown, which were themselves responding, in part, to the article “Life‐Years and Rationing in the Covid‐19 Pandemic: A Critical Analysis,” by MaryKatherine Gaurke, Bernard Prusak, Kyeong Yun Jeong, Emily Scire, and Daniel P. Sulmasy
Should Institutions Disclose the Names of Employees with Covid‐19
Prestigious University is a large, private educational institution with a medical school, a university hospital, a law school, and graduate and undergraduate colleges all on a single campus. In the face of the Covid‐19 pandemic, students were told during spring break to return to campus only briefly to retrieve their belongings. Classes then went online. On March 23, 2020, the faculty, students, and staff were emailed the following by the univers…
An Open Letter to Norman Cantor Regarding Dementia and Physician‐Assisted Suicide
Dear Norm, Thank you for sharing such a personal and heartfelt essay. I have been asked by the editors to comment. Reading it inspires me to do so in a similarly heartfelt way. Although I don't know you well, I thought I'd write to you as if you were my patient. I share your sense that Alzheimer disease is a terrible scourge. I've seen much of this disease over a lifetime of practice, and I deeply understand its ravages and the debility and suffe…
Ethical Principles, Process, and the Work of Bioethics Commissions
Shortly after the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues was constituted in 2010 and days before the commission members were to join a conference call to discuss possible topics for their deliberation, Craig Venter held a press conference announcing that his lab had created a synthetic chromosome for a species of mycoplasma and had inserted this genetic material into organisms of another species of mycoplasma (the genes of whi…
Variations in Unrealistic Optimism Between Acceptors and Decliners of Early Phase Cancer Trials
Research has found that patient-subjects in early phase cancer trials exhibit unrealistic optimism regarding the risks and possible benefits of trial participation. Unrealistic optimism is associated with therapeutic misconception and failures to appreciate research-related information. This is the first study to assess whether those who decline to participate in these trials also exhibit unrealistic optimism. It is also the first study to assess…
What Research Participants Want to Know About Genetic Research Results
The disclosure of individual genetic results has generated an ongoing debate about which rules should be followed. We aimed to identify factors related to research participants' preferences about learning the results of genomic studies using their donated tissue samples. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 279 patients from the United States and Spain who had volunteered to donate a sample for genomic research. Our results show that 48% of r…
‘Reinventing’ the Rule of Double Effect
The Rule of Double Effect has played an important role in bioethics, especially during the last fifty years. Its major application in bioethics has been in providing physicians who are opposed to euthanasia with a moral justification for using opioid analgesics in treating the pain of patients whose death might thereby be hastened. It has also prominently been applied to certain obstetric cases. The scope of application of double effect is actual…
Improving the Quality of Spiritual Care as a Dimension of Palliative Care
A Consensus Conference sponsored by the Archstone Foundation of Long Beach, California, was held February 17-18, 2009, in Pasadena, California. The Conference was based on the belief that spiritual care is a fundamental component of quality palliative care. This document and the conference recommendations it includes builds upon prior literature, the National Consensus Project Guidelines, and the National Quality Forum Preferred Practices and Con…
Bioethics, Conflicts of Interest, the Limits of Transparency
The movement in bioethics toward disclosure of financial conflicts of interest is well and good, most of the time. But in some cases, disclosure is not only unnecessary but destructive. When bioethicists advance arguments whose premises and logical moves are open to scrutiny, disclosure--far from clearing the air of bias introduces bias. Over the past several years, there has been growing concern about the commercialization of bioethics. As ever …
Factors Associated With the Time Nurses Spend at the Bedsides of Seriously Ill Patients With Poor Prognoses
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the time health professionals spend with inpatients that are close to the end of life. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: We asked day-shift nurses to use a standardized log sheet to record how much time they spent in various categories of activity for 146 seriously ill medical inpatients with poor prognoses at 2 teaching hospitals. RESULTS: The mean patient age was 68, and the mean APACHE-III physiology score 28; 59% were wh…
A Biopsychosocial-Spiritual Model for the Care of Patients at the End of Life
PURPOSE: This article presents a model for research and practice that expands on the biopsychosocial model to include the spiritual concerns of patients. DESIGNS AND METHODS: Literature review and philosophical inquiry were used. RESULTS: The healing professions should serve the needs of patients as whole persons. Persons can be considered beings-in-relationship, and illness can be considered a disruption in biological relationships that in turn …
Death, Dignity, and the Theory of Value
Commentary
Christian Ethics and the Delivery of Health Care
Do Patients Die Because They Have DNR Orders, or Do They Have DNR Orders Because They Are Going to Die
From The John J. Conley Department of Ethics, Saint Vincents Hospital and Medical Center, New York, New York; and The Bioethics Institute, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York. Dr. Sulmasy's work is supported by a Faculty Scholars Award of the Open Society Institute's Project on Death in America. Address correspondence to: Daniel P. Sulmasy, OFM, MD, PhD, Sisters of Charity Chair in Ethics, The John J. Conley Department of Ethics, St. Vin…
Ministry and Meaning
What Research Participants Want to Know About Genetic Research Results
The disclosure of individual genetic results has generated an ongoing debate about which rules should be followed. We aimed to identify factors related to research participants' preferences about learning the results of genomic studies using their donated tissue samples. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 279 patients from the United States and Spain who had volunteered to donate a sample for genomic research. Our results show that 48% of r…
Ministry and Meaning
Christian Ethics and the Delivery of Health Care
Do Patients Die Because They Have DNR Orders, or Do They Have DNR Orders Because They Are Going to Die
From The John J. Conley Department of Ethics, Saint Vincents Hospital and Medical Center, New York, New York; and The Bioethics Institute, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York. Dr. Sulmasy's work is supported by a Faculty Scholars Award of the Open Society Institute's Project on Death in America. Address correspondence to: Daniel P. Sulmasy, OFM, MD, PhD, Sisters of Charity Chair in Ethics, The John J. Conley Department of Ethics, St. Vin…
Commentary
A Biopsychosocial-Spiritual Model for the Care of Patients at the End of Life
PURPOSE: This article presents a model for research and practice that expands on the biopsychosocial model to include the spiritual concerns of patients. DESIGNS AND METHODS: Literature review and philosophical inquiry were used. RESULTS: The healing professions should serve the needs of patients as whole persons. Persons can be considered beings-in-relationship, and illness can be considered a disruption in biological relationships that in turn …
Death, Dignity, and the Theory of Value
Bioethics, Conflicts of Interest, the Limits of Transparency
The movement in bioethics toward disclosure of financial conflicts of interest is well and good, most of the time. But in some cases, disclosure is not only unnecessary but destructive. When bioethicists advance arguments whose premises and logical moves are open to scrutiny, disclosure--far from clearing the air of bias introduces bias. Over the past several years, there has been growing concern about the commercialization of bioethics. As ever …
Factors Associated With the Time Nurses Spend at the Bedsides of Seriously Ill Patients With Poor Prognoses
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the time health professionals spend with inpatients that are close to the end of life. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: We asked day-shift nurses to use a standardized log sheet to record how much time they spent in various categories of activity for 146 seriously ill medical inpatients with poor prognoses at 2 teaching hospitals. RESULTS: The mean patient age was 68, and the mean APACHE-III physiology score 28; 59% were wh…
‘Reinventing’ the Rule of Double Effect
The Rule of Double Effect has played an important role in bioethics, especially during the last fifty years. Its major application in bioethics has been in providing physicians who are opposed to euthanasia with a moral justification for using opioid analgesics in treating the pain of patients whose death might thereby be hastened. It has also prominently been applied to certain obstetric cases. The scope of application of double effect is actual…
Improving the Quality of Spiritual Care as a Dimension of Palliative Care
A Consensus Conference sponsored by the Archstone Foundation of Long Beach, California, was held February 17-18, 2009, in Pasadena, California. The Conference was based on the belief that spiritual care is a fundamental component of quality palliative care. This document and the conference recommendations it includes builds upon prior literature, the National Consensus Project Guidelines, and the National Quality Forum Preferred Practices and Con…
What Research Participants Want to Know About Genetic Research Results
The disclosure of individual genetic results has generated an ongoing debate about which rules should be followed. We aimed to identify factors related to research participants' preferences about learning the results of genomic studies using their donated tissue samples. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 279 patients from the United States and Spain who had volunteered to donate a sample for genomic research. Our results show that 48% of r…
Ethical Principles, Process, and the Work of Bioethics Commissions
Shortly after the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues was constituted in 2010 and days before the commission members were to join a conference call to discuss possible topics for their deliberation, Craig Venter held a press conference announcing that his lab had created a synthetic chromosome for a species of mycoplasma and had inserted this genetic material into organisms of another species of mycoplasma (the genes of whi…
Variations in Unrealistic Optimism Between Acceptors and Decliners of Early Phase Cancer Trials
Research has found that patient-subjects in early phase cancer trials exhibit unrealistic optimism regarding the risks and possible benefits of trial participation. Unrealistic optimism is associated with therapeutic misconception and failures to appreciate research-related information. This is the first study to assess whether those who decline to participate in these trials also exhibit unrealistic optimism. It is also the first study to assess…
An Open Letter to Norman Cantor Regarding Dementia and Physician‐Assisted Suicide
Dear Norm, Thank you for sharing such a personal and heartfelt essay. I have been asked by the editors to comment. Reading it inspires me to do so in a similarly heartfelt way. Although I don't know you well, I thought I'd write to you as if you were my patient. I share your sense that Alzheimer disease is a terrible scourge. I've seen much of this disease over a lifetime of practice, and I deeply understand its ravages and the debility and suffe…
Should Institutions Disclose the Names of Employees with Covid‐19
Prestigious University is a large, private educational institution with a medical school, a university hospital, a law school, and graduate and undergraduate colleges all on a single campus. In the face of the Covid‐19 pandemic, students were told during spring break to return to campus only briefly to retrieve their belongings. Classes then went online. On March 23, 2020, the faculty, students, and staff were emailed the following by the univers…
Life‐Years & Rationing in the Covid‐19 Pandemic
Prominent bioethicists have promoted the preservation of life‐years as a rationing strategy in response to the Covid‐19 pandemic. Yet the philosophical justification for maximizing life‐years is underdeveloped and has a complex history that is not reflected in recent literature. In this article, we offer a critical investigation of the use of life‐years, arguing that evidence of public support for the life‐years approach is thin and that organ tr…
ICU Care in a Pandemic
This letter to the editor responds to commentaries in the September‐October 2021issue of the Hastings Center Report by Douglas B. White and Bernard Lo, by Govind Persad, and by Virginia A. Brown, which were themselves responding, in part, to the article “Life‐Years and Rationing in the Covid‐19 Pandemic: A Critical Analysis,” by MaryKatherine Gaurke, Bernard Prusak, Kyeong Yun Jeong, Emily Scire, and Daniel P. Sulmasy
Spirituality in Serious Illness and Health
Importance: Despite growing evidence, the role of spirituality in serious illness and health has not been systematically assessed. Objective: To review evidence concerning spirituality in serious illness and health and to identify implications for patient care and health outcomes. Evidence Review: Searches of PubMed, PsycINFO, and Web of Science identified articles with evidence addressing spirituality in serious illness or health, published Janu…
The virtues and the vices of the outrageous
Controversial arguments are controversial
The Ethics of Heart Donation After the Circulatory Determination of Death
In 2023, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) organized a workshop to identify research gap areas in organ donation after circulatory determination of death (DCDD). We present the findings of the DCDD ethics working group. Heart DCDD, as all DCDD, may disrupt optimal end‐of‐life care. Irrespective of organ donation, research opportunities include identifying which processes of withdrawal of life‐sustaining therapy offer optimum p…
Medicine (16 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Ethics in medical practice (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Alternative medicine (6 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (6 works)