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Bin it or pin it? Which professional ethical guidance on managing COVID-19 should I follow?

Judgments can and should be informed (and constrained) by guidance, and hopefully these preliminary observations on the current ethical guidance on managing COVID-19 will provide some useful pointers for time-pressed professionals.

How do 66 European institutional review boards approve one protocol for an international prospective observational study on traumatic brain injury? Experiences from the CENTER-TBI study

A review of IRB documents found variations in the procedures between and within European countries. There were differences in submission and approval requirements, number of review rounds and total duration.

Patient consent preferences on sharing personal health information during the COVID-19 pandemic: “the more informed we are, the more likely we are to help”

Authors: Sarah Tosoni, Indu Voruganti, Katherine Lajkosz, Shahbano Mustafa, Anne Phillips, S. Joseph Kim, Rebecca K. S. Wong, Donald Willison, Carl Virtanen, Ann Heesters and Fei-Fei Liu

Content type: Research 20 May 2022
Decision-making approaches for children with life-limiting conditions: results from a qualitative phenomenological study

Authors: Sidharth Vemuri, Jenny Hynson, Katrina Williams and Lynn Gillam

Content type: Research 16 May 2022
A chronological discourse analysis of ancillary care provision in guidance documents for research conduct in the global south

Authors: Blessings M. Kapumba, Nicola Desmond and Janet Seeley

Content type: Research 14 May 2022
“Many roads lead to Rome and the Artificial Intelligence only shows me one road”: an interview study on physician attitudes regarding the implementation of computerised clinical decision support systems

Authors: Daan Van Cauwenberge, Wim Van Biesen, Johan Decruyenaere, Tamara Leune and Sigrid Sterckx

Content type: Research 6 May 2022
Combining rules and dialogue: exploring stakeholder perspectives on preventing sexual boundary violations in mental health and disability care organizations

Authors: Charlotte Kröger, Eva van Baarle, Guy Widdershoven, Roland Bal and Jan-Willem Weenink

Content type: Research 3 May 2022

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Controversies and considerations regarding the termination of pregnancy for Foetal Anomalies in Islam

Authors: Abdulrahman Al-Matary and Jaffar Ali

Content type: Debate 5 February 2014
Top 10 health care ethics challenges facing the public: views of Toronto bioethicists

Authors: Jonathan M Breslin, Susan K MacRae, Jennifer Bell and Peter A Singer

Content type: Debate 26 June 2005
The four principles: Can they be measured and do they predict ethical decision making?

Authors: Katie Page

Content type: Research article 20 May 2012
Implicit bias in healthcare professionals: a systematic review

Authors: Chloë FitzGerald and Samia Hurst

Content type: Research article 1 March 2017
Human cloning laws, human dignity and the poverty of the policy making dialogue

Authors: Timothy Caulfield

Content type: Debate 29 July 2003

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BMC Medical Ethics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the ethical aspects of biomedical research and clinical practice, including professional choices and conduct, medical technologies, healthcare systems and health policies.

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Bin it or pin it? Which professional ethical guidance on managing COVID-19 should I follow?

How do 66 European institutional review boards approve one protocol for an international prospective observational study on traumatic brain injury? Experiences from the CENTER-TBI study

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Patient consent preferences on sharing personal health information during the COVID-19 pandemic: “the more informed we are, the more likely we are to help”

Decision-making approaches for children with life-limiting conditions: results from a qualitative phenomenological study

A chronological discourse analysis of ancillary care provision in guidance documents for research conduct in the global south

“Many roads lead to Rome and the Artificial Intelligence only shows me one road”: an interview study on physician attitudes regarding the implementation of computerised clinical decision support systems

Combining rules and dialogue: exploring stakeholder perspectives on preventing sexual boundary violations in mental health and disability care organizations

Controversies and considerations regarding the termination of pregnancy for Foetal Anomalies in Islam

Top 10 health care ethics challenges facing the public: views of Toronto bioethicists

The four principles: Can they be measured and do they predict ethical decision making?

Implicit bias in healthcare professionals: a systematic review

Human cloning laws, human dignity and the poverty of the policy making dialogue

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Black Lives Matter

Announcing the launch of In Review

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BMC Pediatrics attends Pediatric Academic Societies 2022

Introducing the BMC Series SDG Editorial Board Members: Raffaella Ravinetto

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