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Understanding Digital Health Equity: A Conceptual Analysis

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim The purpose of this concept analysis is to clarify the meaning of digital health equity beyond a simplistic definition, obtaining a richer meaning that can guide the digital healthcare landscape. Background With the growing spread of digital health, digital health equity should be at the center of healthcare.
Salsabela Razaq, Saleema Allana
wiley   +1 more source

Ethics in Medical Profession

open access: yesJournal of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, 2018
Ethical challenges exist in all fields and in daily practice. It is a requirement for optimal profes-sionalism. Ethics is a Greek word derived from “Ethos” and “Ethica” meaning right and wrong in one’s act and decision.
Dr. Kalyani R
doaj   +1 more source

Ethical Challenges and Opportunities Associated With the Ability to Perform Medical Screening From Interactions With Search Engines: Viewpoint

open access: yesJournal of Medical Internet Research, 2020
Recent research has shown the efficacy of screening for serious medical conditions from data collected while people interact with online services. In particular, queries to search engines and the interactions with them were shown to be advantageous for ...
Yom-Tov, Elad, Cherlow, Yuval
doaj   +1 more source

Protected from harm, harmed by protection: ethical consequences of the exclusion of pregnant participants from clinical trials

open access: yesResearch Ethics Review, 2023
Pregnancy is a frequently applied exclusion criteria for many forms of research. Common justifications for this exclusion include the potential for teratogenicity, as well as the potential for physiologic changes in pregnancy to impact the research ...
Rebecca L Zur
doaj   +1 more source

Vasectomy provider decision-making balancing autonomy and non-maleficence: qualitative interviews with providers [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

open access: yesGates Open Research, 2023
Background Male sterilization, or vasectomy, is 99.9% effective at preventing pregnancy with less than a 2% risk of complications. Despite the high efficacy, low risk, low cost, and gender equity benefits of vasectomy, just 2% of women reported that they
Alison T. Hoover   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

AI in Public Decision‐Making: A Philosophical and Practical Framework for Assessing and Weighing Harm and Benefit

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in public decision‐making; yet existing governance tools often lack clear definitions of harm and benefit, practical methods for weighing competing values, and guidance for resolving value conflicts.
Karl de Fine Licht, Anna Folland
wiley   +1 more source

Directed donations for unvaccinated blood: A departure from evidence‐based medicine associated with clinical harm, resource waste, and oversight gaps in a two‐year single‐center series

open access: yesTransfusion, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and Objectives Requests for “unvaccinated” blood have been discouraged by professional and regulatory bodies because they lack scientific support and may negatively impact patient care. We describe a single‐center series in which patients or surrogates refused standard blood components unless sourced from directed donors perceived ...
Jeremy W. Jacobs   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Response to LiPuma and DeMarco’s Article on “Hastening Death”

open access: yesHealth Services Insights, 2017
The paper “Palliative care and patient autonomy: moving beyond prohibitions against hastening death” by LiPuma and DeMarco deals with an aspect of end of life care which is the source of considerable disagreement.
Julia Zenz
doaj   +1 more source

Women in space: A review of known physiological adaptations and health perspectives

open access: yesExperimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Exposure to the spaceflight environment causes adaptations in most human physiological systems, many of which are thought to affect women differently from men. Since only 11.5% of astronauts worldwide have been female, these issues are largely understudied.
Millie Hughes‐Fulford   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The patient perspective in health care networks

open access: yesBMC Medical Ethics, 2018
Background Health care organization is entering a new age. Focus is increasingly shifting from individual health care institutions to interorganizational collaboration and health care networks.
Kasper Raus   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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