Assessing research risks systematically: the net risks test.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Discussing treatment risks has become increasingly important in medical communication. Still, despite regulations, physicians must decide how much and what kind of information to present. OBJECTIVE:To investigate patients' preference for information about a small risk of a complication of colonoscopy, and w...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Janssen NB,Oort FJ,Fockens P,Willems DL,de Haes HC,Smets EM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been invented by physicians mostly from English Canada, mostly from McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. The term EBM first appeared in the biomedical literature in 1991 in an article written by a prominent member of this group-Gordon Guyatt from McMaster University. T...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Watine J

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dr Neil Campbell suggests that when patients suffering extremes of protracted pain ask for help to end their lives, their requests should be discounted as made under compulsion. I contend that the doctors concerned should be referred to and then act upon advance directives made by those patients when of sound and calm...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Flew A

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coercion and pressure in mental healthcare raise moral questions. This article focuses on moral questions raised by the everyday practice of pressure and coercion in the care for the mentally ill. In view of an example from literature-the story of Ulysses and the Sirens-several ethical issues surrounding this practice...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Widdershoven G,Berghmans R

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Future HIV vaccine efficacy trials with adolescents will need to ensure that participants comprehend study concepts in order to confer true informed assent. A Hepatitis B vaccine trial with adolescents offers valuable opportunity to test youth understanding of vaccine trial requirements in general. METHOD...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lee S,Kapogiannis BG,Flynn PM,Rudy BJ,Bethel J,Ahmad S,Tucker D,Abdalian SE,Hoffman D,Wilson CM,Cunningham CK,Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV\/AIDS Interventions.

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates the medical law and ethics (MEL) learning needs of Foundation doctors (FYs) by means of a national survey developed in association with key stakeholders including the General Medical Council and Health Education England. Four hundred sevnty-nine doctors completed the survey. The average self-re...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Corfield L,Williams RA,Lavelle C,Latcham N,Talash K,Machin L

更新日期：2020-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although genetic research into Alzheimer disease (AD) is increasing, the ethical aspects of this kind of research and the differences between ethical issues related to genetic and non-genetic research into AD have not yet received much attention. OBJECTIVES:(1) To identify and compare the five ethical issue...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： van der Vorm A,Vernooij-Dassen MJ,Kehoe PG,Olde Rikkert MG,van Leeuwen E,Dekkers WJ

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the context of 'Do-not-resuscitate' (DNR) decisions, there is a lack of information in the UK on the opinions of patients and prospective patients. Written anonymous responses to questionnaires issued to 322 out-patient subjects showed that 97 per cent would opt for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in their curr...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Robertson GS

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For a few decades, patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have been treated with intracerebral transplantations of fetal mesencephalic tissue. The results of open trials have been variable. Double blind, placebo-controlled studies have recently been started in order to further investigate the efficacy of this new medi...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Dekkers W,Boer G

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Desire for improvement in one's illness and having one's own doctor functioning as a researcher are thought to promote therapeutic misconception (TM), a phenomenon in which research subjects are said to conflate research with treatment. PURPOSE:To examine whether subjects' therapeutic motivation and own doc...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Kim SY,De Vries R,Parnami S,Wilson R,Kim HM,Frank S,Holloway RG,Kieburtz K

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic privilege (TP) is a defence that may be available to doctors who fail to disclose to the patient relevant information when seeking informed consent for treatment if they have a reasonable belief that providing that information would likely cause the patient concerned serious physical or mental harm. In a l...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Menon S,Entwistle V,Campbell AV,van Delden JJM

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One theme of London University lawyer Ian Kennedy's 1980 Reith Lectures on medical ethics was the need to change the emphasis in physician patient relations from paternalism on the part of doctors to self determination on the part of patients. Bamford, a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology, demonstrates how reali...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Bamford PN

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doctors, for several reasons, should be concerned with exorcism is the view of Professor Trethowan, who in this paper, looks at the main features of exorcism as practised in the middle ages and now appearing in the modern world, as was seen in the recent Ossett case in Britain. He examines in some detail the nature of...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Trethowan WH

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the experiences of people with a "terminal illness", focusing on the patients' perspective of euthanasia and assisted suicide. METHOD:A qualitative study using narrative interviews was conducted throughout the UK. The views of the 18 people who discussed euthanasia and assisted suicide were explor...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Chapple A,Ziebland S,McPherson A,Herxheimer A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is a common feature of debates on the regulation of reproductive medicine to find law portrayed as a crude form of intervention consisting in the imposition of inflexible rules on doctors and medical researchers. This paper argues that this view must be replaced by a more accurate assessment of the law's potential ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Jabbari D

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial therapy is a cornerstone of therapy in critically ill patients; however, the wide use of antibiotics has resulted in increased antimicrobial resistance and outbreaks of resistant disease. To counter this, many hospitals have instituted antimicrobial stewardship programmes as a way to reduce the inappropr...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Oczkowski S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The work performed by the clinical chemist may deeply affect the decisions of the doctor and the well-being of the patient. Yet in contrast to the doctor and to the nurse the clinical chemist usually has no personal relationship with the patient. Being encumbered by much technology and anonymity is itself a reason for...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： BenGershôm E

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"No one has advanced a just and logical reason why reward for service to the public should be extended to the inventor of a mechanical toy and denied to the genius whose patience, foresight, and effort have given a valuable new [discovery] to mankind" (Katopis CJ. Patents v patents: policy implications of recent paten...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Mitnovetski O,Nicol D

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the current ethical review process (ERP) of ethics committees in a non-pharmacological trial from the perspective of a clinical investigator. DESIGN:Prospective collection of data at the Study Centre of the German Surgical Society on the duration, costs and administrative effort of the ERP of a ra...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Seiler CM,Kellmeyer P,Kienle P,Büchler MW,Knaebel HP,INSECT Study Group.

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fetus may survive an intentional interference with its intrauterine environment (1) if gestational age is mistaken and the procedure of induced abortion does not kill the fetus, (2) if a change of heart takes place after abortifacient drugs are taken and the abortion does not proceed, and (3) if a high-multiple preg...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Jansen RP

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding dental ethics as a field separate from its much better known counterpart, medical ethics, is a relatively new, but necessary approach in bioethics. This need is particularly felt in dental education and establishing a curriculum specifically for dental ethics is a challenging task. Although certain topic...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gorkey S,Guven T,Sert G

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much has been written by many distinguished persons about the philosophical, religious and ethical considerations of doctors and their involvement with torture. What follows will not have the erudition or authority of the likes of St Augustine, Mahatma Gandi, Schopenhauer or Thomas Paine. It represents the views of a ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Burges SH

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The "Kantian ideal" is often misunderstood as invoking individual autonomy rather than rational self legislation. Le Morvan and Stock's otherwise insightful discussion of "Medical learning curves and the Kantian ideal"--for example--draws the mistaken inference that that ideal is inconsistent with the realities of med...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Brecher B

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current COVID-19 pandemic has raised many questions and dilemmas for modern day ethicists and healthcare providers. Are physicians, nurses and other healthcare workers morally obligated to put themselves in harm's way and treat patients during a pandemic, occurring a great risk to themselves, their families and po...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Solnica A,Barski L,Jotkowitz A

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional view that having a personality disorder, unlike other mental disorders, is not usually reason enough to consider a person incompetent to make healthcare decisions is challenged. The example of a case in which a woman was treated for a physical disorder without her consent illustrates that personality d...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Winburn E,Mullen R

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two general ethical problems in psychiatry are thrown into sharp relief by long term care. This article discusses each in turn, in the context of two anonymised case studies from actual clinical practice. First, previous mental health legislation soothed doubts about patients' refusal of consent by incorporating time ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Dickenson D

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translational research is now a critically important current in academic medicine. Researchers in all health-related fields are being encouraged not only to demonstrate the potential benefits of their research but also to help identify the steps through which their research might be 'made practical'. This paper consid...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Cribb A

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Downie comments on Sieghart's article, "Professions as the conscience of society" (Journal of Medical Ethics 1985 Sep; 11(3): 117-122). He charges that Sieghart is blurring empirical, conceptual, and moral claims when he contends that the professional relationship is unique in that "altruism is paramount and self-int...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Downie RS

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper considers and rejects two arguments against the performance of sexual reassignment surgery. First, it is argued that the operation is not mutilating, but functionally enabling. Second, it is argued that the operation is not objectionably deceptive, since, if there is such a thing as our 'real sex', we do not...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lavin M

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dolores Dooley Clarke describes how the course in medical ethics at University College, Cork is structured, how it has changed and how it is likely to change as time goes on. Originally, the students seemed to view it as an intrusion 'to be tolerated' in their programme of 'strictly medical' studies. However, having m...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Clarke DD

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00