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COVID-19 underscores the important role of Clinical Ethics Committees in Africa [PDF]

BMC Medical 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.
Keymanthri Moodley, Siti Mukaumbya Kabanda, Anita Kleinsmidt, Adetayo Emmanuel Obasa   +3 more
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Clinical Ethics Committees in Africa: lost in the shadow of RECs/IRBs? [PDF]

BMC Medical 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.
Keymanthri Moodley, Siti Mukaumbya Kabanda, Leza Soldaat, Anita Kleinsmidt, Adetayo Emmanuel Obasa, Sharon Kling   +5 more
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Roles and responsibilities of clinical ethics committees in priority setting [PDF]

BMC Medical 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?
Morten Magelssen, Ingrid Miljeteig, Reidar Pedersen, Reidun Førde   +3 more
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Can clinical ethics committees be legitimate actors in bedside rationing? [PDF]

BMC Medical 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
Morten Magelssen, Kristine Bærøe
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Hospital/clinical ethics committees' notion: an overview [PDF]

Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 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 ...
Fatemeh Hajibabaee, Soodabeh Joolaee, Mahammad Ali Cheraghi, Pooneh Salari, Patricia Rodney   +4 more
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Clinical ethics committees in nursing homes: what good can they do? Analysis of a single case consultation [PDF]

Nursing Ethics, 2022
Morten Magelssen
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Establishing a clinical ethics support service: lessons from the first 18 months of a new Australian service – a case study

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, Jessie Edwards, Gill Harvey, Jaklin Eliott, Tracy Merlin, Drew Carter, Stewart Moodie, Gerry O’Callaghan   +7 more
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Evaluating assessment tools of the quality of clinical ethics consultations: a systematic scoping review from 1992 to 2019

BMC Medical Ethics, 2020
Background Amidst expanding roles in education and policy making, questions have been raised about the ability of Clinical Ethics Committees (CEC) s to carry out effective ethics consultations (CECons).
Nicholas Yue Shuen Yoon, Yun Ting Ong, Hong Wei Yap, Kuang Teck Tay, Elijah Gin Lim, Clarissa Wei Shuen Cheong, Wei Qiang Lim, Annelissa Mien Chew Chin, Ying Pin Toh, Min Chiam, Stephen Mason, Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna   +11 more
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On-site monitoring of clinical trials by an Ethics Committee in India: a road less travelled

Research Ethics Review, 2021
Monitoring of clinical trials is important to ensure adherence to protocol, to safeguard the rights of research participants and to achieve compliance with principles of good clinical practice. Recent regulatory changes in India require Ethics Committees
Nusrat Shafiq, Savita Kumari, Vivek Kumar, Vinita Suri, Muralidharan Jayashree, Ajay Duseja, Arun Bansal, Samir Malhotra   +7 more
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Research ethics committees: agents of research policy?

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2005
The purpose of this commentary is to describe the unintended effects ethics committees may have on research and to analyse the regulatory and administrative problems of clinical trials.
Hemminki Elina
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