Structural racism in precision medicine: leaving no one behind.

abstract：BACKGROUND:How should clinical ethics support services such as clinical ethics committees (CECs) be implemented and evaluated? We argue that both the CEC itself and the implementation of the CEC should be considered as 'complex interventions'. MAIN TEXT:We present a research project involving the implementation of CEC...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Magelssen M,Karlsen H,Pedersen R,Thoresen L

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few empirical studies have been found that explore ethical challenges among persons in high public positions that are responsible for elder care. The aim of this paper was to illuminate the meaning of being in ethically difficult situations related to elder care as experienced by high level decision-makers. ...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Mamhidir AG,Kihlgren M,Sorlie V

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Community consultation is increasingly recommended, and in some cases, required by ethical review boards for research that involves higher levels of ethical risk such as international research and research with vulnerable populations. In designing a randomised control trial of a mental health intervention us...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Shanks L,Moroni C,Rivera IC,Price D,Clementine SB,Pintaldi G

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Expectations of receiving personal health information as a fringe benefit of biospecimen donation-termed diagnostic misconception-are increasingly documented. We developed an instrument measuring conflation of observational biospecimen-based research and clinical care for use with Latino communities, who may...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Knerr S,Ceballos RM

更新日期：2015-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plagiarism is considered as serious research misconduct, together with data fabrication and falsification. However, little is known about biomedical researchers' views on plagiarism. Moreover, it has been argued - based on limited empirical evidence - that perceptions of plagiarism depend on cultural and oth...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Yi N,Nemery B,Dierickx K

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies on informed consent to medical research conducted in low or middle-income settings have increased, including empirical investigations of consent to genetic research. We investigated voluntary participation and comprehension of informed consent among women involved in a genetic epidemiological study o...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Marshall PA,Adebamowo CA,Adeyemo AA,Ogundiran TO,Strenski T,Zhou J,Rotimi CN

更新日期：2014-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a permanent need to evaluate and develop the ethical quality of scientific research and to widen knowledge about the effects of ethical issues. Therefore we evaluated whether informed consent is related to implementation and success in a lifestyle intervention study with older research participants....

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Länsimies-Antikainen H,Pietilä AM,Laitinen T,Kiviniemi V,Rauramaa R

更新日期：2010-06-08 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:Several charters of rights have been issued in Europe to solemnly proclaim the rights of children during their hospital stay. However, notwithstanding such general declarations, the actual implementation of hospitalized children's rights is unclear. The purpose of this study was to understand to which extent...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Bisogni S,Aringhieri C,McGreevy K,Olivini N,Lopez JR,Ciofi D,Merlo AM,Mariotti P,Festini F

更新日期：2015-05-13 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: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: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: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:France has long been a country of immigration and in some respects may be seen to have a generous policy with respect to asylum seekers and access to health care for migrants. The French state notably provides healthcare access for undocumented migrants, through state medical aid and since 1998 has had a hum...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Cailhol J,Lebon MC,Sherlaw W

更新日期：2020-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The generation of evidence is integral to the work of public health and health service providers. Traditionally, ethics has been addressed differently in research projects, compared with other forms of evidence generation, such as quality improvement, program evaluation, and surveillance, with review of non-...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Willison DJ,Ondrusek N,Dawson A,Emerson C,Ferris LE,Saginur R,Sampson H,Upshur R

更新日期：2014-08-08 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: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:Despite the growing recognition for the need to improve the health of prisoners in Canada and the need for health research, there has been little discussion of the ethical issues with regards to health research with prisoners in Canada. The purpose of this paper is to encourage a national conversation about ...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Silva DS,Matheson FI,Lavery JV

更新日期：2017-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Donepezil, an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, has been widely cited in media and bioethics literature on cognitive enhancement (CE) as having the potential to improve the cognitive ability of healthy individuals. In both literatures, this claim has been repeatedly...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Wade L,Forlini C,Racine E

更新日期：2014-05-12 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:Family members do not have an official position in the practice of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide (EAS) in the Netherlands according to statutory regulations and related guidelines. However, recent empirical findings on the influence of family members on EAS decision-making raise practical and eth...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Roest B,Trappenburg M,Leget C

更新日期：2019-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When a new intervention or drug is developed, this has to pass through various phases of clinical testing before it achieves market approval, which can take many years. This raises an issue for drugs which could benefit terminally ill patients. These patients might set their hopes on the experimental drug bu...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Raus K

更新日期：2016-10-18 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:Cancer patients are at risk of developing blood clots in their veins - venous thromboembolism (VTE) - which often takes the form of a pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis. The risk increases with advanced disease. Evidence based treatment is low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) by daily subcutaneous inj...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Sheard L,Prout H,Dowding D,Noble S,Watt I,Maraveyas A,Johnson M

更新日期：2012-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Public satisfaction with policy process influences the legitimacy and acceptance of policies, and conditions the future political process, especially when contending ethical value judgments are involved. On the other hand, public involvement is required if effective policy is to be developed and accepted. M...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Sato H,Akabayashi A,Kai I

更新日期：2005-01-20 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 tissue collected at a forensic post-mortem for forensic genetics research purposes remains of ethical concern as the process involves obtaining informed consent from grieving family members. Two forensic genetics research studies using tissue collected from a forensic post-mortem were recently ini...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Heathfield LJ,Maistry S,Martin LJ,Ramesar R,de Vries J

更新日期：2017-11-29 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: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: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