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Background Substituted judgment assumes adequate knowledge of patient’s mind-set. However, surrogates’ prediction of individual healthcare decisions is often inadequate and may be based on shared background rather than patient-specific knowledge.
Muhammad M. Hammami +4 more
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Background: In several European countries, medical assistance in dying (MAID) is no longer confined to persons with a terminal prognosis but is also available to those suffering from persistent and unbearable mental illness.
Julia Stoll +3 more
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Physicians engaged in clinical research must address the challenge to determine whether a potential new intervention represents an advance over current methods, whether the new intervention would avoid harms currently incurred, whether it would save lives currently lost.
Ernst Singer, Christiane Druml
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Ethics in Clinical Development [PDF]
The meeting was convened to provide a forum for the discussion of those aspects of medical ethics which concerned clinical research, particularly the clinical studies which the pharmaceutical industry is required to carry out to satisfy regulatory authorities for them to issue licences for the introduction of new medicines.
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Clinical Ethics Committees in Africa: lost in the shadow of RECs/IRBs?
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 +5 more
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Hermeneutical Clinical Ethics: A Commentary
Essays by Thomasma and ten Have recommend hermeneutical clinical ethics. The use Thomasma makes of hermeneutics is not radical enough because it leaves out basic interpretation of clinical practice and focuses narrowly on ethical principles and rules ...
Daniel, Stephen L.
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Clinical governance and research ethics as barriers to UK low-risk population-based health research? [PDF]
Background: Since the Helsinki Declaration was introduced in 1964 as a code of practice for clinical research, it has generally been agreed that research governance is also needed in the field of public health and health promotion research. Recently, a
Flora Douglas +9 more
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Human experimentation since World War II has created some difficult problems with the increasing employment of patients as experimental subjects when it must be apparent that they would not have been available if they had been truly aware of the uses that would be made of them.
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Clinical ethics committees : a worldwide development
Clinical ethics committees (CECs) are well established in North America where they are known as hospital or health care ethics committees. Similar groups and other kinds of clinical ethics support are now developing in Europe.
Ashcroft, Richard +2 more
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The role of patients in European clinical ethics consultation [PDF]
Clinical ethics committees and consultation services have existed in many European countries for over two decades. Many different modes of operation have emerged, each reflecting a particular health and socio-political context.
Newson, Ainsley J +7 more
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