A biobank management model applicable to biomedical research.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Large-scale linkage of international clinical datasets could lead to unique insights into disease aetiology and facilitate treatment evaluation and drug development. Hereto, multi-stakeholder consortia are currently designing several disease-specific translational research platforms to enable international h...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Kalkman S,Mostert M,Gerlinger C,van Delden JJM,van Thiel GJMW

更新日期：2019-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Respect for confidentiality is important to safeguard the well-being of patients and ensure the confidence of society in the doctor-patient relationship. The aim of our study is to examine real situations in which there has been a breach of confidentiality, by means of direct observation in clinical practice...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Beltran-Aroca CM,Girela-Lopez E,Collazo-Chao E,Montero-Pérez-Barquero M,Muñoz-Villanueva MC

更新日期：2016-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Animal models of human diseases are often used in biomedical research in place of human subjects. However, results obtained by animal models may fail to hold true for humans. One way of addressing this problem is to make animal models more similar to humans by placing human tissue into animal models, renderi...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Porsdam Mann S,Sun R,Hermerén G

更新日期：2019-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The increased use of human biological material for cell-based research and clinical interventions poses risks to the privacy of patients and donors, including the possibility of re-identification of individuals from anonymized cell lines and associated genetic data. These risks will increase as technologies ...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Ogbogu U,Burningham S,Ollenberger A,Calder K,Du L,El Emam K,Hyde-Lay R,Isasi R,Joly Y,Kerr I,Malin B,McDonald M,Penney S,Piat G,Roy DC,Sugarman J,Vercauteren S,Verhenneman G,West L,Caulfield T

更新日期：2014-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence concerning how Japanese physicians think and behave in specific clinical situations that involve withholding or withdrawal of medical interventions for end-of-life or frail elderly patients is yet insufficient. METHODS:To analyze decisions and actions concerning the withholding/withdrawal of life-s...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Bito S,Asai A

更新日期：2007-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few studies have examined factors associated with willingness of people living with HIV (PLHIV) to participate in HIV treatment clinical trials in Sub-Saharan Africa. We assessed the factors associated with participation of PLHIV in HIV treatment clinical trials research at a large urban clinical and researc...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Sebatta DE,Siu G,Nabeta HW,Anguzu G,Walimbwa S,Lamorde M,Bukenya B,Kambugu A

更新日期：2020-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Surgery for intersex infants should be delayed until individuals are able to decide for themselves, except where it is a medical necessity. In an ideal world, this single principle would suffice and such surgeries could be totally prohibited. Unfortunately, the world is not perfect, and, in some places, inte...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Behrens KG

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient outcome after serious brain injury is highly variable. Following a period of coma, some patients recover while others progress into a vegetative state (unresponsive wakefulness syndrome) or minimally conscious state. In both cases, assessment is difficult and misdiagnosis may be as high as 43%. Recen...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Weijer C,Peterson A,Webster F,Graham M,Cruse D,Fernández-Espejo D,Gofton T,Gonzalez-Lara LE,Lazosky A,Naci L,Norton L,Speechley K,Young B,Owen AM

更新日期：2014-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The 3rd Pan-African Ethics Human Rights and Medical Law (3rd EHRML) conference was held in Johannesburg on July 7, 2013, as part of the Africa Health Congress. The conference brought together bioethicists, researchers and scholars from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Nigeria working in the field of bioethics as well...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Chima SC,Mduluza T,Kipkemboi J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Implementation science research, especially when using participatory and co-design approaches, raises unique challenges for research ethics committees. Such challenges may be poorly addressed by approval and governance mechanisms that were developed for more traditional research approaches such as randomised...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Goodyear-Smith F,Jackson C,Greenhalgh T

更新日期：2015-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Researchers are required to seek consent from Indigenous communities prior to conducting research but there is inadequate information about how Indigenous people understand and become fully engaged with this consent process. Few studies evaluate the preference or understanding of the consent process for rese...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Fitzpatrick EFM,Macdonald G,Martiniuk ALC,D'Antoine H,Oscar J,Carter M,Lawford T,Elliott EJ

更新日期：2017-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:South Africa currently has a pluralistic health care system with separate public and private sectors. It is, however, moving towards a socialised model with the introduction of National Health Insurance. The South African legislative environment has changed recently with the promulgation of the Consumer Prot...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Rowe K,Moodley K

更新日期：2013-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Differences in perception and potential disagreements between parents and professionals regarding the attitude for resuscitation at the limit of viability are common. This study evaluated in healthcare professionals whether the decision to resuscitate at the limit of viability (intensive care versus comfort ...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Papadimitriou V,Tosello B,Pfister R

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In studies publishing identifying personal information, obtaining consent is regarded as necessary, as it is impossible to ensure complete anonymity. However, current journal practices around specific points to consider when obtaining consent, the contents of consent forms and how consent forms are managed h...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Yoshida A,Dowa Y,Murakami H,Kosugi S

更新日期：2013-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The boundaries between health-related research and practice have become blurred as initiatives traditionally considered to be practice (e.g., quality improvement, program evaluation) increasingly use the same methodology as research. Further, the application of different ethical requirements based on this di...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Ondrusek NK,Willison DJ,Haroun V,Bell JA,Bornbaum CC

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the past 25 years, there has been growing recognition of the importance of studying the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) of genetic and genomic research. A large investment into ELSI research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Human Genomic Project budget in 1990 stimulated the gr...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Bell J,Ancillotti M,Coathup V,Coy S,Rigter T,Tatum T,Grewal J,Akcesme FB,Brkić J,Causevic-Ramosevac A,Milovanovic G,Nobile M,Pavlidis C,Finlay T,Kaye J,ELSI2.0.

更新日期：2016-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Various forms of Clinical Ethics Support (CES) have been developed in health care organizations. Over the past years, increasing attention has been paid to the question of how to foster the quality of ethics support. In the Netherlands, a CES quality assessment project based on a responsive evaluation design...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Van Baarle EM,Potma MC,van Hoek MEC,Hartman LA,Molewijk BAC,van Gurp JLP

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DNR decisions are frequently made in oncology and hematology care and physicians and nurses may face related ethical dilemmas. Ethics is considered a basic competence in health care and can be understood as a capacity to handle a task that involves an ethical dilemma in an adequate, ethically responsible man...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Pettersson M,Hedström M,Höglund AT

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intensive care physicians often must rely on substitute decision makers to address all dimensions of the construct of "best interest" for incapable, critically ill patients. This task involves identifying prior wishes and to facilitate the substitute decision maker's understanding of the incapable patient's ...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Ratnapalan M,Cooper AB,Scales DC,Pinto R

更新日期：2010-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatric biobanking is considered important for generating biomedical knowledge and improving (pediatric) health care. However, the inclusion of children's samples in biobanks involves specific ethical issues. One of the main concerns is how to appropriately engage children in the consent procedure. We suggest that c...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Giesbertz NA,Melham K,Kaye J,van Delden JJ,Bredenoord AL

更新日期：2016-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although informed consent is an integral part of clinical practice, its current doctrine remains mostly a matter of law and mainstream ethics rather than empirical research. There are scarce empirical data on patients' perceived purpose of informed consent, which may include administrative routine/courtesy g...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Hammami MM,Al-Gaai EA,Al-Jawarneh Y,Amer H,Hammami MB,Eissa A,Qadire MA

更新日期：2014-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of empirical research methods in bioethics has been increasing in the last decades. It has resulted in discussions about the 'empirical turn of bioethics' and raised questions related to the value of empirical work for this field, methodological questions about its quality and rigor, and how this int...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Wangmo T,Provoost V

更新日期：2017-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2009, Dr. Paolo Zamboni proposed chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) as a possible cause of multiple sclerosis (MS). Although his theory and the associated treatment ("liberation therapy") received little more than passing interest in the international scientific and medical communities, hi...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Pullman D,Zarzeczny A,Picard A

更新日期：2013-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Moral Case Deliberations (MCDs) are reflective dialogues with a group of participants on their own moral dilemmas. Although MCD is successful as clinical ethics support (CES), it also has limitations. 1. Lessons learned from individual MCDs are not shared in order to be used in other contexts 2. Moral learni...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Hartman LA,Metselaar S,Molewijk AC,Edelbroek HM,Widdershoven GAM

更新日期：2018-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Africa continues to bear a disproportionate share of the global HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria burden. The development and distribution of safe, effective and affordable vaccines is critical to reduce these epidemics. However, conducting HIV/AIDS, TB, and/or malaria vaccine trials simultaneously in ...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Mamotte N,Wassenaar D,Koen J,Essack Z

更新日期：2010-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The past 10 years have witnessed a significant growth in sharing of health data for secondary uses. Alongside this there has been growing interest in the public acceptability of data sharing and data linkage practices. Public acceptance is recognised as crucial for ensuring the legitimacy of current practice...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Aitken M,de St Jorre J,Pagliari C,Jepson R,Cunningham-Burley S

更新日期：2016-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Community engagement (CE) models have provided much needed guidance for researchers to conceptualise and design engagement strategies for research projects. Most of the published strategies, however, still show very limited contribution of the community to the engagement process. One way of achieving this is...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Musesengwa R,Chimbari MJ

更新日期：2017-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV prevention research in resource-limited countries is associated with a variety of ethical dilemmas. Key amongst these is the question of what constitutes an appropriate standard of health care (SoC) for participants in HIV prevention trials. This paper describes a community-focused approach to develop a ...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Vallely A,Shagi C,Lees S,Shapiro K,Masanja J,Nikolau L,Kazimoto J,Soteli S,Moffat C,Changalucha J,McCormack S,Hayes RJ

更新日期：2009-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is continued need for enhanced medical ethics education across the United States. In an effort to guide medical ethics education reform, we report the first interprofessional survey of a cohort of graduate medical, nursing and allied health professional students that examined perceived student need for...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： DeFoor MT,Chung Y,Zadinsky JK,Dowling J,Sams RW 2nd

更新日期：2020-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mobile applications and socio-sexual networking websites are used by outreach workers to respond synchronously to questions and provide information, resources, and referrals on sexual health and STI/HIV prevention, testing, and care to gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GB2M). This explorator...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Fantus S,Souleymanov R,Lachowsky NJ,Brennan DJ

更新日期：2017-11-03 00:00:00