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Principles of Clinical Ethics and Their Application to Practice

Medical Principles and Practice, 2020
An overview of ethics and clinical ethics is presented in this review. The 4 main ethical principles, that is beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice, are defined and explained.
B. Varkey
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Factors associated with post-acute discharge location after hospital stay: a cross-sectional study from a Swiss hospital

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background In 2012, Switzerland introduced the diagnosis-related group hospital payment system. Fearing that vulnerable patients may be discharged early, Acute and Transitional Care (ATC) was introduced to address the nursing care of patients who no ...
Bettina M. Zimmermann, Insa Koné, Michael Rost, Agnes Leu, Tenzin Wangmo, Bernice S. Elger   +5 more
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Challenges to patient centredness – a comparison of patient and doctor experiences from primary care

BMC Family Practice, 2019
Background We designed this observational study to investigate the level of patients’ and doctors’ ratings of patient-centred aspects of the primary care consultation. Methods Questionnaire study with patients and doctors.
Helene Bodegård, Gert Helgesson, Niklas Juth, Daniel Olsson, Niels Lynøe   +4 more
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Acute and transitional care or rehabilitation? Retrospective analysis of discharge planning from a municipal hospital in Switzerland

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Due to rising health care costs, in 2012 Switzerland introduced SwissDRG, a reimbursement system for hospitals based on lump sum per case. To circumvent possible negative consequences like reduction in length of stay, acute and transitional ...
Lara Kollbrunner, Michael Rost, Insa Koné, Bettina Zimmermann, Yvonne Padrutt, Tenzin Wangmo, Bernice Elger   +6 more
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Sweat Cortisol and Cortisone Determination in Healthy Adults: UHPLC-MS/MS Assay Validation and Clinical Application

Advances in Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2022
A simple and effective ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography assay linked to tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS) for measuring cortisol and cortisone levels in human sweat has been developed and validated.
Syed N. Alvi, Kafa Abuhdeeb, Muhammad M. Hammami   +2 more
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Principles of biomedical ethics

, 1991
In this presentation, I will discuss the principles of biomedical and Islamic medical ethics and an interfaith perspective on end-of-life issues. I will also discuss three cases to exemplify some of the conflicts in ethical decision-making. http://dx.doi.
T. Beauchamp, J. Childress
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Embedded ethics: a proposal for integrating ethics into the development of medical AI

BMC Medical Ethics, 2022
The emergence of ethical concerns surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) has led to an explosion of high-level ethical principles being published by a wide range of public and private organizations.
S. McLennan, A. Fiske, Daniel W. Tigard, Ruth Müller, Sami Haddadin, A. Buyx   +5 more
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A palliative care approach in psychiatry: clinical implications

BMC Medical Ethics, 2020
Background Traditionally, palliative care has focused on patients suffering from life-threatening somatic diseases such as cancer or progressive neurological disorders.
Mattias Strand, Manne Sjöstrand, Anna Lindblad   +2 more
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Race in health research: Considerations for researchers and research ethics committees

South African Journal of Bioethics and Law, 2023
This article provides ethical guidance on using race in health research as a variable or in defining the study population. To this end, a plain, non-exhaustive checklist is provided for researchers and research ethics committees, preceded by a brief ...
W Van Staden, A Nienaber, T Rossouw, A Turner, C Filmalter, A E Mercier, J G Nel, B Bapela, M M Beetge, R Blumenthal, C D V Castelyn, T W de Witt, A G Dlagnekova, C Kotze, J S Mangwane, L Napoles, R Sommers, L Sykes, W B van Zyl, M Venter, A Uys, N Warren   +21 more
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Big data ethics, machine ethics or information ethics? Navigating the maze of applied ethics in IT [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
Digitalization efforts are rapidly spreading across societies, challenging new and important ethical issues that arise from technological development. Software developers, designers and managerial decision-makers are ever more expected to consider ethical values and conduct normative evaluations when building digital products.
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