Title: Default for Ethical decision in healthcare
Course: Advanced AI Assessment

An ethical decision in healthcare must be made with the intention of improving the lives of patients and users, or stakeholders. How can a decision in healthcare be made to improve the lives of stakeholders?

In order for a decision to improve lives of stakeholders, it must answer their needs. How, in a decision making process, can one ensure that the decision made will indeed improve said lives?

A decision made based on identified unmet needs of stakeholders and with the objective of answering them will by definition improve their lives. How can one ensure their decision is based on the actual and current needs of stakeholders?

The only sure way of making a decision which will answer the needs of stakeholders is to ask them to identify their needs for decision makers to understand them. Define how a decision based on self-identified needs of the stakeholders makes it ethical.

How can decision makers ensure they not only have identified the needs of stakeholders, but understand them well enough to be able to provide an answer?

The best way to collect pertinent experiential data from stakeholders is through an interactive discussion as to not reduce them to simple sources of data. Since they are sharing their life experiences in order to improve their care which will impact them daily, they must be treated as equal partners in the decision making process. Define how developing an equal partnership with stakeholders during this process makes it ethical.

Working in an equal partnership with stakeholders to make a decision regarding their care ensures mutual respect, which is central to an ethical process. If making a decision based on real understanding of the stakeholders needs make it ethical, and developing a respectful partnership with stakeholders during a decision-making process makes it ethical, define why involving patients in decision making is necessary in healthcare.