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EClinicalMedicine, 2022 Summary: Background: Rates of suicide and self-harm are elevated in carceral institutions. Inmates are a vulnerable group since they are exposed to multiple risk factors.
Stefan Stijelja, Brian L. Mishara
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Probabilistic and Risk-Informed Life Extension Assessment of Wind Turbine Structural Components
Energies, 2021 Reassessment of the fatigue life for wind turbine structural components is typically performed using deterministic methods with the same partial safety factors as used for the original design.
Jannie Sønderkær Nielsen +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Suicide in older persons is a serious issue in many countries. The act of intentionally causing one’s own death is often associated with lack of social support, thwarted belongingness, or chronic interpersonal difficulties.
Gabrielle Michaud-Dumont +4 more
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Cultural sensitivity in brain death determination: a necessity in end-of-life decisions in Japan
BMC Medical Ethics, 2021 Background In an increasingly globalized world, legal protocols related to health care that are both effective and culturally sensitive are paramount in providing excellent quality of care as well as protection for physicians tasked with decision making.
Yuri Terunuma, Bryan J. Mathis
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Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022 BackgroundAdherence to ethical principles is a requirement for palliative care delivery to children and a main concern of healthcare providers. Physicians usually face ethical challenges during their daily practice in hospitals and need adequate skills ...
Farzaneh Zahedi +10 more
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Exploring access to end of life care for ethnic minorities with end stage kidney disease through recruitment in action research [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: Variation in provision of palliative care in kidney services and practitioner concerns to provide equitable access led to the development of this study which focussed on the perspectives of South Asian patients and their care providers.
A Worth +27 more
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Current Medical Issues, 2023 India bears a significant portion of the worldwide burden of chronic and terminal illnesses. Nevertheless, there is a dearth of a standardized approach in delivering optimal end-of-life care (EOLC) to a substantial proportion of patients who have reached
Gopal Singh Charan +2 more
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Current Medical Research: Summer–Fall 2009 [PDF]
, 2010 Note that the “Current Medical Research” feature focuses on issues relevant to natural family planning and the beginning of life. This piece is complemented by medical reviews published in The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, which focus more on ...
Fehring, Richard
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Is Humane Slaughter Possible? [PDF]
, 2020 One of the biggest ethical issues in animal agriculture is that of the welfare of animals at the end of their lives, during the process of slaughter.
Browning, Heather, Veit, Walter
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Ethical Dilemmas Expressed by Non-oncology Specialists Involved in Diagnosis and Care of Cancer Patients: A Preliminary Study [PDF]
Middle East Journal of Cancer, 2019 Background: Ethical problems routinely arise in the healthcare profession and more so in hospitals providing cancer diagnosis and care. Literature study indicates that almost all studies addressing ethical issues in cancer have been qualitative and ...
Suresh Rao +6 more
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