abstract：BACKGROUND:Expanded access is the use of investigational drugs (IDs) outside of clinical trials. Generally it is performed in patients with serious and life-threatening diseases who cannot be treated satisfactorily with authorized drugs. Legal regulations of expanded access to IDs have been introduced among others in t...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Borysowski J,Górski A

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical Ethics Committees (CECs) are well established at healthcare institutions in resource-rich countries. However, there is limited information on established CECs in resource poor countries, especially in Africa. This study aimed to establish baseline data regarding existing formal CECs in Africa to rai...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Moodley K,Kabanda SM,Soldaat L,Kleinsmidt A,Obasa AE,Kling S

更新日期：2020-11-18 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:Scientific advances have resulted in more complex medical systems, which in turn have led to an increase in the number of patient safety incidents (PSIs). In this environment, the importance of honest disclosure of PSIs is rising, which highlight the need to settle a reliable system. This study aimed to inve...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Kim Y,Lee E

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

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 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: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: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:In August 2017, Chile lifted its complete ban on abortion by permitting abortion in three limited circumstances: 1) to save a woman's life, 2) lethal fetal anomaly, and 3) rape. The new law allows regulated use of conscientious objection (CO) in abortion care, including allowing institutions to register as o...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Biggs MA,Casas L,Ramm A,Baba CF,Correa SP

更新日期：2020-05-24 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:Biomarker research is gaining increasing attention focusing on the preclinical stages of the disease. Such interest requires special attention for communication and disclosure in clinical contexts. Many countries give dementia a high health policy priority by developing national strategies and by improving g...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Alpinar-Sencan Z,Schicktanz S

更新日期：2020-05-11 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: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:The progress of electronic health technologies and biobanks holds enormous promise for efficient research. Evidence shows that studies based on sharing and secondary use of data/samples have the potential to significantly advance medical knowledge. However, sharing of such resources for international collabo...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Bernasconi L,Şen S,Angerame L,Balyegisawa AP,Hong Yew Hui D,Hotter M,Hsu CY,Ito T,Jörger F,Krassnitzer W,Phillips AT,Li R,Stockley L,Tay F,von Heijne Widlund C,Wan M,Wong C,Yau H,Hiemstra TF,Uresin Y,Senti G

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ethical principle of justice demands that resources be distributed equally and based on evidence. Guidelines regarding forgoing of CPR are unavailable and there is large variance in the reported rates of attempted CPR in in-hospital cardiac arrest. The main objective of this work was to study whether loc...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Ozer J,Alon G,Leykin D,Varon J,Aharonson-Daniel L,Einav S

更新日期：2019-12-26 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: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:Biobanking is a relatively new concept in Egypt. Building a good relationship with different stakeholders is essential for the social sustainability of biobanks. To establish this relationship, it is necessary to assess the attitude of different groups towards this concept. The objective of this work is to a...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Abdelhafiz AS,Sultan EA,Ziady HH,Ahmed E,Khairy WA,Sayed DM,Zaki R,Fouda MA,Labib RM

更新日期：2019-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This paper explores ethical concerns arising in healthcare integration. We argue that integration is necessary imperative for meeting contemporary and future healthcare challenges, a far stronger evidence base for the conditions of its effectiveness is required. In particular, given the increasing emphasis a...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： McKeown A,Cliffe C,Arora A,Griffin A

更新日期：2019-07-03 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: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: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: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:In most socialised health systems there are formal processes that manage resource scarcity and determine the allocation of funds to health services in accordance with their priority. In this analysis, part of a larger qualitative study examining the ethical issues entailed in doctors' participation as techni...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Gallagher S,Little M,Hooker C

更新日期：2018-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In todays' super-diverse societies, communication and interaction in clinical encounters are increasingly shaped by linguistic, cultural, social and ethnic complexities. It is crucial to better understand the difficulties patients with migration background and healthcare professionals experience in their sha...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Würth K,Langewitz W,Reiter-Theil S,Schuster S

更新日期：2018-07-04 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: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:Regardless of national contexts, the institutions responsible for research ethics, founded on international regulations, are all expected to be structured and to operate in a common way. Our experience with several countries on different continents, however, has raised questions in this regard. This article ...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Sambiéni NE

更新日期：2018-06-15 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:Making particular use of Shale's analysis, this paper discusses the notion of leadership in the context of palliative medicine. Whilst offering a critical perspective, I build on the philosophy of palliative care offered by Randall and Downie and suggest that the normative structure of this medical specialit...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Emmerich N

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We analyzed the patients' perception of prenatal diagnosis of fetal cardiac pathology, and the reasons for choosing to continue with pregnancy despite being eligible to receive a medical termination of pregnancy. We also identified the challenges, the motives interfering in decision-making, and the consequen...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Abi Tayeh G,Jouannic JM,Mansour F,Kesrouani A,Attieh E

更新日期：2018-05-02 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:This debate article explores how smart technologies may create a double-edged sword for patient safety and effective therapeutic relationships. Increasing utilization of health monitoring devices by patients will likely become an important aspect of self-care and preventive medicine. It may also help to enha...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Ho A,Quick O

更新日期：2018-03-06 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: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: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: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: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: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:Between 2013 and 2016, West Africa experienced the largest ever outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease. In the absence of registered treatments or vaccines to control this lethal disease, the World Health Organization coordinated and supported research to expedite identification of interventions that could control ...

journal_title：BMC medical ethics

authors： Alirol E,Kuesel AC,Guraiib MM,de la Fuente-Núñez V,Saxena A,Gomes MF

更新日期：2017-06-26 00:00:00