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Pharmacovigilance and Principle of Nonmaleficence in Sex Reassignment

open access: yesMedicina, 2012
Physicians are obliged to provide treatment that is consistent with their commitment to avoid or minimize harm (nonmaleficence) and their commitment to do good (beneficence). Therefore, if patient’s desires were contradictory to the primary aim of medicine, the doctor’s calling would require him/her to thoroughly analyze the cause of the disease and ...
Zamarytė, Kristina   +4 more
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Ethics of Vaccination in Childhood—A Framework Based on the Four Principles of Biomedical Ethics

open access: yesVaccines, 2021
Although vaccination is recognised as the top public health achievement of the twentieth century, unequivocal consensus about its beneficence does not exist among the general population.
Meta Rus, Urh Groselj
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The “Four Principles” of Western Medical Bioethics and the Bioethics of Shīʿī Islam in Iran—Is the Claim of Universality by Both Justified?

open access: yesReligions, 2022
The four principles of Western medical bioethics, i.e., autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence and justice, published by Beauchamps and Childress in their seminal ‘Principles of Biomedical Ethics’, are understood as universal.
Ursula Plöckinger, Ulrike Auga
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Autonomy limitations in public health law: Compulsory childhood vaccination [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2016
It needs to be stressed that the opponents of compulsory vaccination programmes for children, which are nowadays preferred by many states, are not unanimous in their arguments against such policies.
Tucak Ivana
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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
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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
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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
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Nurses’ sickness presenteeism: Benefit or burden?

open access: yesNursing Practice Today, 2023
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Yusrita Zolkefli
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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
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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
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