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Hospital/clinical ethics committees' notion: an overview. [PDF]
J Med Ethics Hist Med, 2016 Hospital ethics committees (HECs) help clinicians deal with the ethical challenges which have been raised during clinical practice. A comprehensive literature review was conducted to provide a historical background of the development of HECs ...
Hajibabaee F +4 more
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Clinical Ethics Committees in Africa: lost in the shadow of RECs/IRBs? [PDF]
BMC Med Ethics, 2020 Background Clinical Ethics Committees (CECs) are well established at healthcare institutions in resource-rich countries. However, there is limited information on established CECs in resource poor countries, especially in Africa.
Moodley K +5 more
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COVID-19 underscores the important role of Clinical Ethics Committees in Africa. [PDF]
BMC Med Ethics, 2021 Background The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified pre-existing challenges in healthcare in Africa. Long-standing health inequities, embedded in the continent over centuries, have been laid bare and have raised complex ethical dilemmas.
Moodley K +3 more
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Roles and responsibilities of clinical ethics committees in priority setting. [PDF]
BMC Med Ethics, 2017 Background Fair prioritization of healthcare resources has been on the agenda for decades, but resource allocation dilemmas in clinical practice remain challenging. Can clinical ethics committees (CECs) be of help?
Magelssen M +3 more
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Core competencies for clinical ethics committees. [PDF]
Clin Med (Lond), 2010 Clinical ethics committees (CECs) are increasing in number in the UK and have mostly developed in response to local interest, as opposed to being mandated as in the USA. However, there is no regulatory framework for UK CECs with no defined educational requirements or specification of core competencies for their members.
Larcher V +3 more
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Can clinical ethics committees be legitimate actors in bedside rationing? [PDF]
BMC Med Ethics, 2019 Background Rationing and allocation decisions at the clinical level – bedside rationing – entail complex dilemmas that clinicians and managers often find difficult to handle. There is a lack of mechanisms and aids for promoting fair decisions, especially
Magelssen M, Bærøe K.
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Evolution of ethics in clinical research and ethics committee
Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2017 Ethics are the moral values of human behavior and the principles which govern these values. The situation becomes challenging for a doctor when he assumes the role of researcher.
Nilay Kanti Das, Amrita Sil
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Continuous review for ethical conduct of clinical trial-are the ethics committees complying? [PDF]
Perspect Clin ResEthics committees (ECs) play a crucial role in safeguarding clinical trial participants through ongoing review beyond initial protocol approval. Although regulations require periodic monitoring of study progress, risk, protocol adherence, and informed ...
Kalikar MV, Dakhale G.
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Clinical ethics committee [PDF]
BMJ, 1995 An informal clinical ethics committee was set up to advise on ethical problems in prenatal diagnosis in Leeds. It was used twice in six months but was not called on again in the subsequent year, and we describe this experience. In North America similar committees are often used to advise on clinical moral dilemmas, and we review the published evidence ...
J G, Thornton, R J, Lilford
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BMC Medical Ethics, 2023 Background Although the importance of clinical ethics in contemporary clinical environments is established, development of formal clinical ethics services in the Australia health system has, to date, been ad hoc. This study was designed to systematically
Elizabeth Hoon +7 more
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