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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.

Development of a core outcome set for informed consent for therapy: An international key stakeholder consensus study

Authors: Liam J. Convie, Joshua M. Clements, Scott McCain, Jeffrey Campbell, Stephen J. Kirk and Mike Clarke

Content type: Research 9 August 2022
Do biomedical researchers differ in their perceptions of plagiarism across Europe? Findings from an online survey among leading universities

Authors: Nannan Yi, Benoit Nemery and Kris Dierickx

Content type: Research 8 August 2022
Where the public health principles meet the individual: a framework for the ethics of compulsory outpatient treatment in psychiatry

Authors: Sérgio M. Martinho, Bárbara Santa-Rosa and Margarida Silvestre

Content type: Debate 25 July 2022
Ethics knowledge, attitudes, and experiences of tertiary care pediatricians in Ethiopia

Authors: Atnafu Mekonnen Tekleab and John D. Lantos

Content type: Research 22 July 2022
Junior Medical Officers’ knowledge of advance care directives and substitute decision making for people without decision making capacity: a cross sectional survey

Authors: Jamie Bryant, Amy Waller, Alison Bowman, Robert Pickles, Carolyn Hullick, Emma Price, Ben White, Lindy Willmott, Anne Knight, Mary-Ann Ryall and Rob Sanson-Fisher

Content type: Research 18 July 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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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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Development of a core outcome set for informed consent for therapy: An international key stakeholder consensus study

Do biomedical researchers differ in their perceptions of plagiarism across Europe? Findings from an online survey among leading universities

Where the public health principles meet the individual: a framework for the ethics of compulsory outpatient treatment in psychiatry

Ethics knowledge, attitudes, and experiences of tertiary care pediatricians in Ethiopia

Junior Medical Officers’ knowledge of advance care directives and substitute decision making for people without decision making capacity: a cross sectional survey

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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