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Shared Responsibility After Referral: Ethical Challenges in Preventing Harm
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
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‘We need solidarity’: Reflections on Building and Troubling Solidarity in Research Ethics in Myanmar
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
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Background, Physiology and Ethics of Artificial Placentas
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)
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
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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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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
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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
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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
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Nonmaleficence and the Diagnostic Cutpoints
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
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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
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