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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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Clinical ethics support services (CESS) are services that aim at supporting health-care professionals (including ancillary staff, managers, and directors), patients, and their families when being confronted with an ethical concern, question, or dilemma.
Molewijk, A.C. +2 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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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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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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Background Vitamin-D2 (D2) treatment has been associated with a decrease in 25-hydroxy (25(OH)) vitamin-D3 (D3) level, suggesting that D3 treatment would be preferred to raise total 25(OH) vitamin-D (D) level.
Muhammad M. Hammami +3 more
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“The Notion of Neutrality in Clinical Ethics Consultation”
Clinical ethics consultation (CEC), as an activity that may be provided by clinical ethics committees and consultants, is nowadays a well-established practice in North America.
Alessandra Gasparetto +2 more
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Ethics and Clinical Education [PDF]
This paper explores the ethical concerns which were identified in a mixed methods study to determine the facilitators and barriers to quality clinical education on the clinical training platform of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits).Ethical and professional behaviour concerns were extracted and analysed from focus groups and questionnaires that
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