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Cultures and cures: neurodiversity and brain organoids

BMC Medical Ethics, 2021
Background Research with cerebral organoids is beginning to make significant progress in understanding the etiology of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Brain organoid models can be grown from the cells of donors with ASD.
Andrew J. Barnhart, Kris Dierickx
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Care ethics and physical restraint in residential child care [PDF]

, 2015
When social care workers must respond to behaviour which poses serious, imminent danger, the response can sometimes take the form of physical restraint.
Steckley, Laura
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Protocol for a scoping review to understand what is known about how GPs make decisions with, for and on behalf of patients who lack capacity

BMJ Open, 2020
Introduction General Practitioners (GPs) and allied healthcare professionals working in primary care are regularly required to make decisions with, for and on behalf of patients who lack capacity.
Richard Huxtable, Jonathan Ives, Simon Jack Ogden   +2 more
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Who is disabled? On whether the functional definition of disability targets the same individuals as the subjective definition

Frontiers in Sustainability, 2023
With the increased attention to disability as a vulnerability criterion in the Sustainable Development Goals, international organizations and NGOs within the international development sector have started to pay explicit attention to persons with ...
Judith Baart, Willem Elbers, Alice Schippers   +2 more
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The patient-level effect of the cost of Cancer care – financial burden in German Cancer patients

BMC Cancer, 2020
Background Financial toxicity of cancer has so far been discussed primarily in the US health care system and is associated with higher morbidity and mortality.
Katja Mehlis, Julian Witte, Bastian Surmann, Matthias Kudlich, Leonidas Apostolidis, Jürgen Walther, Dirk Jäger, Wolfgang Greiner, Eva C. Winkler   +8 more
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Contextualization of cost-effectiveness evidence from literature for 382 health interventions for the Ethiopian essential health services package revision

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2021
Background Cost-effectiveness of interventions was a criterion decided to guide priority setting in the latest revision of Ethiopia’s essential health services package (EHSP) in 2019.
Alemayehu Hailu, Getachew Teshome Eregata, Amanuel Yigezu, Melanie Y. Bertram, Kjell Arne Johansson, Ole F. Norheim   +5 more
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Attitudes and experiences of European clinical geneticists towards direct-to-consumer genetic testing: a qualitative interview study

New Genetics and Society, 2019
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests (GT) enable consumers to access a wide range of GT, without involving a healthcare professional, promoting an increasing disassociation of genetics from the clinical context.
Louiza Kalokairinou, Pascal Borry, Heidi C. Howard   +2 more
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The Influence of Trauma on End-of-Life Decision-Making

Canadian Journal of Bioethics
This case study illustrates how principles and approaches from trauma-informed care can be used in a setting where a family is requesting the medical team not to share bad news out of fear of re-traumatization.
Maya Nortjé, Maureen Pontarelli, Ian Doherty, Karen Terrell, Carla Robles, Nico Nortjé   +5 more
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Sharing behavior and health care utilization following direct-to-consumer genetic testing: a systematic review [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Open Research Europe
Background Direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTC-GT) which provides genetic information directly to the public, has become widely available at a moderate cost.
Maria Siermann, Eva Van Steijvoort, Alexandra Stanczak, Pascal Borry, Kenji Demesure, Kaatje Goossens   +5 more
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Polygenic risk scoring of human embryos: a qualitative study of media coverage

BMC Medical Ethics, 2021
Background Current preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) technologies enable embryo genotyping across the whole genome. This has led to the development of polygenic risk scoring of human embryos (PGT-P).
Tiny Pagnaer, Maria Siermann, Pascal Borry, Olga Tšuiko   +3 more
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