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Digital pills: a scoping review of the empirical literature and analysis of the ethical aspects

BMC Medical Ethics, 2020
Background Digital Pills (DP) are an innovative drug-device technology that permits to combine traditional medications with a monitoring system that automatically records data about medication adherence as well as patients’ physiological data.
Andrea Martani, Lester Darryl Geneviève, Christopher Poppe, Carlo Casonato, Tenzin Wangmo   +4 more
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Google's Project Nightingale highlights the necessity of data science ethics review

EMBO Molecular Medicine, 2020
On November 14 last year, the British Guardian published an account from an anonymous whistleblower at Google, accusing the company of misconduct in regard to handling sensitive health data.
Christophe Olivier Schneble, Bernice Simone Elger, David Martin Shaw   +2 more
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Ethical and Clinical Aspects of Intensive Care Unit Admission in Patients with Hematological Malignancies: Guidelines of the Ethics Commission of the French Society of Hematology

Advances in Hematology, 2014
Admission of patients with hematological malignancies to intensive care unit (ICU) raises recurrent ethical issues for both hematological and intensivist teams.
Sandra Malak, Jean-Jacques Sotto, Joël Ceccaldi, Philippe Colombat, Philippe Casassus, Dominique Jaulmes, Henri Rochant, Morgane Cheminant, Yvan Beaussant, Robert Zittoun, Dominique Bordessoule   +10 more
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Expression of Concern: Enhanced Protective Efficacy of Nonpathogenic Recombinant Leishmania tarentolae Expressing Cysteine Proteinases Combined with a Sand Fly Salivary Antigen.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021
PLOS Publication Ethics Editors
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Uncovering the social impact of digital steganalysis tools applied to cybercrime investigations: a European Union perspective

Crime Science
Background European Union (EU) research on cybersecurity is actively developing more efficient digital steganalysis techniques aimed at uncovering hidden online illegal content in apparently legitimate multimedia files.
Alejandro Nicolás-Sánchez, Francisco J. Castro-Toledo   +1 more
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Sync fast and solve things—best practices for responsible digital health

npj Digital Medicine
Digital health innovation is expected to transform healthcare, but it also generates ethical and societal concerns, such as privacy risks, and biases that can compound existing health inequalities.
Constantin Landers, Alessandro Blasimme, Effy Vayena   +2 more
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Analyzing the European institutional response to ethical and regulatory challenges of artificial intelligence in addressing discriminatory bias

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
The European Union and some of its institutions have taken significant steps to address the challenges posed by the development and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in various contexts.
Pablo Cerezo-Martínez, Alejandro Nicolás-Sánchez, Francisco J. Castro-Toledo, Francisco J. Castro-Toledo   +3 more
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Advance care planning in Norwegian nursing homes – limited awareness of the residents’ preferences and values? A qualitative study

BMC Geriatrics, 2019
Background 52% of all deaths in Norway occur in nursing homes. Still advance care planning (ACP) is scarce and heterogeneous. To improve the implementation and practice of ACP in nursing homes, knowledge about health care professionals’ views on ACP is ...
Lisbeth Thoresen, Reidar Pedersen, Lillian Lillemoen, Elisabeth Gjerberg, Reidun Førde   +4 more
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Reasons why nurses decline influenza vaccination: a qualitative study

BMC Nursing, 2017
Background To explore reasons of non-vaccinated nursing staff for declining seasonal influenza vaccination. The annual influenza vaccination of healthcare workers reduces morbidity and mortality among vulnerable patients.
Anina Pless, Stuart R. McLennan, Dunja Nicca, David M. Shaw, Bernice S. Elger   +4 more
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Use of assent documents and supportive pediatric care practices: results from a national survey in Japan

BMC Medical Ethics
Background Japanese research guidelines mandate obtaining written consent from pediatric patients in a manner suitable to their level of decision-making capacity when conducting interventional studies.
Ai Unzaki, Yuko Ohnuki, Mizuho Yamazaki Suzuki, Tomoari Mori, Kei Takeshita   +4 more
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