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An Ethics Framework for Medical Assistance in Dying: Supporting Ethical Decision-Making in the Practice of MAiD. [PDF]

open access: yesBioethics
ABSTRACT This paper presents an Ethics Framework for MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) to support the integration of evidence‐informed, values‐based, inclusive and transparent ethical decision‐making into everyday MAiD practice. As with other areas of clinical practice, ethical decision‐making is an intrinsic part of MAiD.
Frolic AN, Holland T.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Love Without Food: Supporting Families End-of-Life Care Decisions for Critically Ill Late-Stage Cancer Patients

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Bioethics, 2023
In some families, there is an inseparable connection between showing love, caring, and providing food. These conceptual connections can create tension between families and care teams over end-of-life care for critically ill late-stage cachexic patients ...
Amitabha Palmer
doaj   +1 more source

Care and Do Not Harm: Possible Misunderstandings With Quaternary Prevention (P4); Comment on “Quaternary Prevention, an Answer of Family Doctors to Over Medicalization” [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2015
The discussion between general practitioners (GPs) and healthcare delivery organizations necessitates a common language. The presentation of the 4 types of GP’s activities, opens dialogue but can lead to possible misunderstandings between the micro- and ...
Daniel Widmer
doaj   +1 more source

Physicians’ behavior regarding non-acceptance of oral restriction (nil per os) by dysphagic patient with risk of laryngotracheal aspiration

open access: yesEinstein (São Paulo), 2020
Objective: To define physician´s behavior in the face of a mentally capable elderly dysphagic patients at risk of pulmonary aspiration, who do not accept oral restriction.
Frederico de Lima Alvarenga   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Nurses’ sickness presenteeism: Benefit or burden?

open access: yesNursing Practice Today, 2023
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Yusrita Zolkefli
doaj   +1 more source

A study of the validity and reliability of the questionnaire entitled “physicians' approach to and disclosure of medical errors and the related ethical issues”

open access: yesJournal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2019
Medical errors are among the major challenges that threaten patients’ health worldwide. The aim of this study was to design a valid and reliable questionnaire to investigate the status of medical error disclosure by physicians.
Mohammad Mohammadi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Epistemic Injustice and Nonmaleficence

open access: yesJournal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2023
AbstractEpistemic injustice has undergone a steady growth in the medical ethics literature throughout the last decade as many ethicists have found it to be a powerful tool for describing and assessing morally problematic situations in healthcare. However, surprisingly scarce attention has been devoted to how epistemic injustice relates to physicians ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Moral injury and the four pillars of bioethics [version 4; peer review: 2 approved]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2023
Healthcare providers experience moral injury when their internal ethics are violated. The routine and direct exposure to ethical violations makes clinicians vulnerable to harm.
Thomas F Heston, Joshuel A Pahang
doaj   +1 more source

An extra reason to roll the dice: balancing harm, benefit and autonomy in 'futile' cases [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Oncologists frequently have to break bad news to patients. Although they are not normally the ones who tell patients that they have cancer, they are the ones who have to tell patients that treatment is not working, and they are almost always the ones who
Shaw, D.M.
core   +1 more source

Putting “Epistemic Injustice” to Work in Bioethics: Beyond Nonmaleficence

open access: yesJournal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2023
We expand on Della Croce's ambition to interpret "epistemic injustice" as a specification of non-maleficence in the use of the influential four-principle framework. This is an alluring line of thought for conceptual, moral, and heuristic reasons. Although it is commendable, Della Croce's attempt remains tentative. So does our critique of it.
S. Wallaert, S. Segers
openaire   +3 more sources

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