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Prejudice in healthcare practices are harmful and unjust. Urgent interventions are essential in increasing awareness of obesity prejudice, both implicit and explicit, among physicians.
Language first, governance follows. The current use of passive language in human tissue research can benefit from transitioning into a more continuous, bi-directional relationship between tissue providers and biobanks.
Articles
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Parental waivers to enable adolescent participation in certain forms of health research: lessons from a South African case study
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Managing the moral expansion of medicine
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How to deal with moral challenges around the decision-making competence in transgender adolescent care? Development of an ethics support tool
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Exploring how biobanks communicate the possibility of commercial access and its associated benefits and risks in participant documents
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Controversies and considerations regarding the termination of pregnancy for Foetal Anomalies in Islam
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Top 10 health care ethics challenges facing the public: views of Toronto bioethicists
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The four principles: Can they be measured and do they predict ethical decision making?
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Implicit bias in healthcare professionals: a systematic review
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Human cloning laws, human dignity and the poverty of the policy making dialogue
Aims and scope
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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Citation Impact
2.834 - 2-year Impact Factor (2021)
3.917 - 5-year Impact Factor (2021)
1.524 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
0.832 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)Speed
52 days to first decision for all manuscripts (Median)
105 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only (Median)Usage
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The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:
Identity transparency: Single anonymized
Reviewer interacts with: Editor
Review information published: Review reports. Reviewer Identities reviewer opt in. Author/reviewer communication