Pediatric Ethics Consultation Services. [PDF]
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Although guidelines call for the presence of pediatric ethics consultation services (PECS), their existence in children’s hospitals remains unquantified. This study determined the prevalence of PECS in children’s hospitals and compared the practice environments of those with versus without ...
Weaver MS +4 more
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Rethinking Pediatric Ethics Consultations [PDF]
Johnson and colleagues (2015) report a retrospective review of the experience of an ethics consultation service at a single, highly specialized children's hospital over an 11-year period.
Isaacs, D +3 more
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Mandatory Ethics Consultation Policy [PDF]
To describe ethics consultations at a single institution that has a mandatory ethics consultation policy.We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of all adult patients who were admitted to the intensive care unit at Columbia University Medical Center and had an ethics consultation between August 1, 2006, and July 31, 2007.
Romano, ME +4 more
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Values, quality, and evaluation in ethics consultation [PDF]
Background: The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities has recommended regular evaluation of the quality of health care ethics consultation. This article discusses the impact of ethics consultation on clinicians' perceptions of a patient's plan of
Molnar, Elizabeth +2 more
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Stimulation of the tibial nerve: a protocol for a multicentred randomised controlled trial for urinary problems associated with Parkinson’s disease—STARTUP [PDF]
Introduction Parkinson’s disease is the second most common chronic neurodegenerative condition with bladder dysfunction affecting up to 71%. Symptoms affect quality of life and include urgency, frequency, hesitancy, nocturia and incontinence.
Booth, Jo +10 more
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Evolving perspectives on broad consent for genomics research and biobanking in Africa. Report of the Second H3Africa Ethics Consultation Meeting, 11 May 2015. [PDF]
A report on the Second H3Africa Ethics Consultation Meeting, which was held in Livingstone, Zambia on 11 May 2015. The meeting demonstrated considerable evolution by African Research Ethics Committees on thinking about broad consent as a consent option ...
de Vries, J +6 more
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A code of ethics for health care ethics consultants: Journey to the present and implications for the field [PDF]
For decades a debate has played out in the literature about who bioethicists are, what they do, whether they can be considered professionals qua bioethicists, and, if so, what professional responsibilities they are called to uphold.
Tarzian, Anita J., Wocial, Lucia D.
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Integrating spirituality and psychotherapy: Ethical issues and principles to consider [PDF]
Professional and scientific psychology appears to have rediscovered spirituality and religion during recent years, with a large number of conferences, seminars, workshops, books, and special issues in major professional journals on spirituality and ...
Plante, Thomas G.
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The interplay between societal concerns and the regulatory frame on GM crops in the European Union [PDF]
Recapitulating how genetic modification technology and its agro-food products aroused strong societal opposition in the European Union, this paper demonstrates how this opposition contributed to shape the European regulatory frame on GM crops.
De Waele, Danny +3 more
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Research on clinical ethics and consultation. Introduction to the theme [PDF]
Clinical ethics consultation has developed from local pioneer projects into a field of growing interest among both clinicians and ethicists. What is needed are more systematic studies on the ethical challenges faced in clinical practice and problem ...
Agich, George, Reiter-Theil, Stella
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