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Shared Responsibility After Referral: Ethical Challenges in Preventing Harm

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Bioethics
The case illustrates how fragmented communication and blurred accountability between primary and specialty care can compromise the principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence, resulting in preventable harm for patients.
Ohad Avny, Mayer Brezis, Anat Tsur
doaj   +1 more source

‘We need solidarity’: Reflections on Building and Troubling Solidarity in Research Ethics in Myanmar

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Calls for solidarity by civil society are taking place alongside changes in how researchers navigate shifting research landscapes. Yet what solidarity‐based research entails in practice and how this might guide, critique, or challenge institutionalised ethics can be elusive.
Vanessa Lamb   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Background, Physiology and Ethics of Artificial Placentas

open access: yesSpectrum, 2023
Preterm birth, referring to a baby being born before 37 weeks of pregnancy, is the leading cause of death in young children and is associated with many complications for the individuals who survive.
Ashley Zubkowski
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VSED Should Not Be a Pathway to MAiD (Though Both Are Ethically Permissible)

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent changes in aid in dying laws have led some to argue for a pathway from Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED) to Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD). Proponents point to the Sontag case as demonstrating the efficacy of the practice. This article first provides an overview of the development of the practice of VSED and MAiD and provides
D. B. Davison
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
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Death Determination, the Dying Process and the Dead Donor Rule: A Critical Analysis of the Italian 20‐Minute No‐Touch Period in Controlled Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Italy, controlled Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death (cDCDD) requires a 20‐min no‐touch period documented by continuous electrocardiographic monitoring. Since Italian law adopts a single brain‐based definition of death, this procedure serves as an indirect determination of the irreversible cessation of all brain functions ...
Lucia Craxì
wiley   +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

An Electronic Health Record “Nudge” to Reduce Antipsychotic Medication Prescribing for Primary Care Patients With Dementia: A Pragmatic RCT

open access: yesJournal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background We hypothesized that an electronic health record (EHR) alert grounded in behavioral science could reduce new antipsychotic medication prescriptions for older adults with dementia. Methods We conducted a pragmatic clinical trial at a large academic health system, randomizing providers to receive the alert (intervention) or not ...
Catherine A. Sarkisian   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nonmaleficence and the Diagnostic Cutpoints

open access: yes, 2018
The choice of cutpoints in clinical epidemiology involves trading off the utility gain of the true-positives with the utility loss of the false-positives.
Robra, Bernt -Peter   +2 more
core   +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

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