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DECISIONS RELATED TO THE BEGINNING AND END OF LIFE

open access: yesАкушерство, гинекология и репродукция, 2016
The traditions and practices of medicine provide an important reference point for medical ethics because they are based on the obligation to protect and promote the health-related interests of the patient.
F. A. Chervenak, L. B. McCullough
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Personalizing Personalized Medicine: The Confluence of Pharmacogenomics, a Person’s Medication Experience and Ethics

open access: yesPharmacy, 2023
Truly personalized precision medicine combines pharmacogenomics (PGx), a person’s lived medication experiences and ethics; person-centeredness lies at the confluence of these considerations.
Timothy P. Stratton, Anthony W. Olson
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Ethics Seminars: Health Care Proxies and Suicidal Patients [PDF]

open access: yesAcademic Emergency Medicine, 2003
AbstractAdvance directives, health care proxies, and living wills are forms of advance planning that permit patients to make decisions regarding their health care and are used when the patient becomes incapacitated. The ethics of allowing these forms of advance planning are questioned when the patient has attempted suicide.
Theodore C, Bania   +2 more
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Developing an in-depth understanding of patient and caregiver engagement across care transitions from hospital: protocol for a qualitative study exploring experiences in Canada

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2023
Introduction Patient and caregiver engagement is critical, and often compromised, at points of transition between care settings, which are more common, and more challenging, for patients with complex medical problems.
Helen Johnson   +13 more
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Virtue ethics and the commitment to learn: overcoming disparities faced by transgender individuals

open access: yesPhilosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to utilize virtue ethics as the appropriate paradigm by which to improve health care delivery to transgender individuals.
Jennifer Markusic Wimberly
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The concept of compassionate care in nursing: a meta-synthesis [PDF]

open access: yesNursing and Midwifery Studies
Background: Compassionate care contributes to improved diagnosis and patient treatment, enhanced quality of care, increased patient satisfaction and reduced workplace tension. Given the diverse interpretations of compassionate care in nursing, this study
Ali Asghar Khaleghi, Masoud Mohammadi
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The ethics of caring for hospital-dependent patients [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Medical Ethics, 2017
Hospital-dependent patients are individuals who are repeatedly readmitted to the hospital because their acute medical needs cannot be met elsewhere. Unlike the chronically critically ill, these patients do not have a continuous need for life-sustaining equipment and can experience periods of relative stability where they have a good quality of life ...
Calvin Sung, Jennifer L. Herbst
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Communication and Language Profiles of Children Treated for Posterior Fossa Brain Tumors

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Cognitive and language deficits are frequently reported sequelae of posterior fossa brain tumors (PFBT). Typically, delayed onset impedes prompt assessment and early intervention. This has devastating implications for quality of life.
Zara Sved   +4 more
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Qu’est-ce qu’une éthique médicale minimaliste ?

open access: yesRecherches en Éducation, 2014
The central position which is occupied today by autonomy of patient in relation of care seems to lead naturally clinical ethics in moral minimalism. But what’s the meaning exactly of “to be minimalist” in relation of care?
Guillaume Durand, Gérard Dabouis
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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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