Differences and structural weaknesses of institutional mechanisms for health research ethics: Burkina Faso, Palestine, Peru, and Democratic Republic of the Congo.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Care-dependency constitutes an important issue with regard to the approval of end-of-life decisions, yet attitudes towards assisted suicide and euthanasia are understudied among care-dependent older adults. We assessed attitudes towards assisted suicide and euthanasia and tested empirical correlates, includi...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Stolz E,Mayerl H,Gasser-Steiner P,Freidl W

更新日期：2017-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health checks or health screenings identify (risk factors for) disease in people without a specific medical indication. So far, the perspective of (potential) health check users has remained underexposed in discussions about the ethics and regulation of health checks. METHODS:In 2017, we conducted a qualita...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Stol YH,Asscher ECA,Schermer MHN

更新日期：2018-06-22 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:With a growing number of genetic tests becoming available to the health and consumer markets, genetic health care providers in Canada are faced with the challenge of developing robust decision rules or guidelines to allocate a finite number of public resources. The objective of this study was to gain Canadia...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Adair A,Hyde-Lay R,Einsiedel E,Caulfield T

更新日期：2009-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Family members are often required to act as substitute decision-makers when health care or research participation decisions must be made for an incapacitated relative. Yet most families are unable to accurately predict older adult preferences regarding future health care and willingness to engage in research...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Bravo G,Arcand M,Blanchette D,Boire-Lavigne AM,Dubois MF,Guay M,Hottin P,Lane J,Lauzon J,Bellemare S

更新日期：2012-01-05 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: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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Social media and Internet technologies present several emerging and ill-explored issues for a modern healthcare workforce. One issue is patient-targeted Googling (PTG), which involves a healthcare professional using a social networking site (SNS) or publicly available search engine to find patient informatio...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Chester AN,Walthert SE,Gallagher SJ,Anderson LC,Stitely ML

更新日期：2017-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When conducting research with Indigenous populations consent should be sought from both individual participants and the local community. We aimed to search and summarise the literature about methods for seeking consent for research with Indigenous populations. METHODS:A systematic literature search was cond...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Fitzpatrick EF,Martiniuk AL,D'Antoine H,Oscar J,Carter M,Elliott EJ

更新日期：2016-10-22 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:The study examined the knowledge and attitudes to personal genomics testing for complex diseases among Nigerians and identified how the knowledge and attitudes vary with gender, age, religion, education and related factors. METHODS:Data were collected using qualitative method in 2 districts of the Federal C...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Fagbemiro L,Adebamowo C

更新日期：2014-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The work of Research Ethics Boards (REBs), especially when involving genetics research and biobanks, has become more challenging with the growth of biotechnology and biomedical research. Some REBs have even rejected research projects where the use of a biobank with coded samples was an integral part of the s...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Auray-Blais C,Patenaude J

更新日期：2006-04-06 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 patenting of human genes has been the subject of debate for decades. While China has gradually come to play an important role in the global genomics-based testing and treatment market, little is known about Chinese scholars' perspectives on patent protection for human genes. METHODS:A content analysis o...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Du L

更新日期：2018-04-24 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：: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:As genetics technology proceeds, practices of genetic testing have become more heterogeneous: many different types of tests are finding their way to the public in different settings and for a variety of purposes. This diversification is relevant to the discourse on ethical, legal and societal issues (ELSI) s...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Bunnik EM,Schermer MH,Janssens AC

更新日期：2011-06-14 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:Since 2010, the European Journal of Anaesthesiology has required the reporting of five items concerning ethical approval in articles describing human research: ethics committee's name and address, chairperson's name, study's protocol number and approval date. We aimed to assess whether this requirement has h...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Zoccatelli D,Tramèr MR,Elia N

更新日期：2018-06-08 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:Professional guidelines have addressed ethical dilemmas posed by a few types of nontraditional procreative arrangements (e.g., gamete donations between family members), but many questions arise regarding how providers view and make decisions about these and other such arrangements. METHODS:Thirty-seven ART ...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Klitzman R

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A requisite for ethical human subjects research is that participation should be informed and voluntary. Participation during the informed consent process by way of asking questions is an indicator of the extent to which consent is informed. AIMS:The aims of this study were to assess the extent to which pare...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Rajaraman D,Jesuraj N,Geiter L,Bennett S,Grewal HM,Vaz M,TB Trials Study Group.

更新日期：2011-02-15 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:Precision medicine (PM) is an emerging approach to individualized care. It aims to help physicians better comprehend and predict the needs of their patients while effectively adopting in a timely manner the most suitable treatment by promoting the sharing of health data and the implementation of learning hea...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Geneviève LD,Martani A,Shaw D,Elger BS,Wangmo T

更新日期：2020-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Institutional review boards (IRBs) distinguish health care quality improvement (QI) and health care quality improvement research (QIR) based primarily on the rigor of the methods used and the purported generalizability of the knowledge gained. Neither of these criteria holds up upon scrutiny. Rather, this ap...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Fiscella K,Tobin JN,Carroll JK,He H,Ogedegbe G

更新日期：2015-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Partnering with patients in healthcare research now benefits from a strong rationale and is encouraged by funding agencies and research institutions. However, this new approach raises ethical issues for patients, researchers, research professionals and administrators. The main objective of this review is to ...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Martineau JT,Minyaoui A,Boivin A

更新日期：2020-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In most Anglophone nations, policy and law increasingly foster an autonomy-based model, raising issues for large numbers of people who fail to fit the paradigm, and indicating problems in translating practical and theoretical understandings of 'good death' to policy. Three exemplar populations are frail olde...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Birchley G,Jones K,Huxtable R,Dixon J,Kitzinger J,Clare L

更新日期：2016-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is widely acknowledged that there is a global divide on health care and health research known as the 10/90 divide. METHODS:A retrospective survey of articles published in the BMJ, Lancet, NEJM, Annals of Internal Medicine & JAMA in a calendar year to examine the contribution of the developing world to me...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Sumathipala A,Siribaddana S,Patel V

更新日期：2004-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ethics committees typically apply the common principles of autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence and justice to research proposals but with variable weighting and interpretation. This paper reports a comparison of ethical requirements in an international cross-cultural study and discusses their implications....

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Goodyear-Smith F,Lobb B,Davies G,Nachson I,Seelau SM

更新日期：2002-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Financial relationships between physicians and industry are extensive and public reporting of industry payments to physicians is now occurring. Our objectives were to describe physician recipients of large total payments from these seven companies, and to examine discrepancies between these payments and conf...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Norris SL,Holmer HK,Ogden LA,Burda BU,Fu R

更新日期：2012-09-26 00:00:00