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  2. Over recent years, the research community has been increasingly using preprint servers to share manuscripts that are not yet peer-reviewed. Even if it enables quick dissemination of research findings, this pra...

    Authors: Raffaella Ravinetto, Céline Caillet, Muhammad H. Zaman, Jerome Amir Singh, Philippe J. Guerin, Aasim Ahmad, Carlos E. Durán, Amar Jesani, Ana Palmero, Laura Merson, Peter W. Horby, E. Bottieau, Tammy Hoffmann and Paul N. Newton

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:106

    Content type: Debate

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  3. Severe brain injury is a leading cause of death and disability. Diagnosis and prognostication are difficult, and errors occur often. Novel neuroimaging methods can improve diagnostic and prognostic accuracy, e...

    Authors: Andrew Peterson, Fiona Webster, Laura Elizabeth Gonzalez-Lara, Sarah Munce, Adrian M. Owen and Charles Weijer

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:105

    Content type: Research

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  4. Informed consent, whose goal is to assure that participants enter research voluntarily after disclosure of potential risks and benefits, may be impossible or impractical in emergency research. In low resource ...

    Authors: Dan Kabonge Kaye

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:104

    Content type: Research article

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  5. Institutions, funding agencies and publishers are placing increasing emphasis on good research data management (RDM). RDM lapses in medical science can result in questionable data and cause the public’s confid...

    Authors: Hui Xing Lau, Ser Lin Celine Lee and Yusuf Ali

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:103

    Content type: Technical advance

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  7. Clinical genomic professionals are increasingly facing decisions about returning incidental findings (IFs) from genetic research. Although previous studies have shown that research participants are interested ...

    Authors: Isamme AlFayyad, Mohamad Al-Tannir, Amani Abu-Shaheen and Saleh AlGhamdi

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:101

    Content type: Research article

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  9. Clinical ethics case consultations (CECCs) provide a structured approach in situations of ethical uncertainty or conflicts. There have been increasing calls in recent years to assess the quality of CECCs by me...

    Authors: Andre Nowak, Jan Schildmann, Stephan Nadolny, Nicolas Heirich, Kim P. Linoh, Henning Rosenau, Jochen Dutzmann, Daniel Sedding and Michel Noutsias

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:99

    Content type: Research

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  11. Little is known about the ethical situations which physiotherapists encounter internationally. This lack of knowledge impedes the ability of the profession to prepare and support physiotherapists in all world ...

    Authors: Caroline Fryer, Andrea Sturm, Roswith Roth and Ian Edwards

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:97

    Content type: Research

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  12. In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the biomedical research community’s attempt to focus the attention on fighting COVID-19, led to several challenges within the field of research ethics. However, we know ...

    Authors: Alice Faust, Anna Sierawska, Katharina Krüger, Anne Wisgalla, Joerg Hasford and Daniel Strech

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:96

    Content type: Research article

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  13. Informed consent forms for clinical research are several and variable at international, national and local levels. According to the literature, they are often unclear and poorly understood by participants. Wit...

    Authors: Cinzia Colombo, Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, Christine Kubiak, Serena Battaglia, Mihaela Matei, Marialuisa Lavitrano, Sara Casati, Victoria Chico, Irene Schluender, Tamara Carapina and Paola Mosconi

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:95

    Content type: Research article

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  15. The EU’s 2006 Paediatric Regulation aims to support authorisation of medicine for children, thus effectively increasing paediatric research. It is ethically imperative to simultaneously establish procedures th...

    Authors: Jana Reetz, Gesine Richter, Christoph Borzikowsky, Christine Glinicke, Stephanie Darabaneanu and Alena Buyx

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:93

    Content type: Research article

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  18. Operation room (OR) planning is a complex process, especially in large hospitals with high rates of unplanned emergency procedures. Postponing elective surgery in order to provide capacity for emergency operat...

    Authors: Julia Becker, Gerald Huschak, Hannes-Caspar Petzold, Volker Thieme, Sebastian Stehr and Sven Bercker

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:90

    Content type: Research

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  19. Solitary death (kodokushi) has recently become recognized as a social issue in Japan. The social isolation of older people leads to death without dignity. With the outbreak of COVID-19, efforts to eliminate solit...

    Authors: Eisuke Nakazawa, Keiichiro Yamamoto, Alex John London and Akira Akabayashi

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:89

    Content type: Debate

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  20. Media have increasingly reported on the difficulties associated with end-of-life decision-making in patients with Disorders of Consciousness (DOC), contextualizing such dilemma in detailed accounts of the pati...

    Authors: Mario Picozzi, Lino Panzeri, Davide Torri and Davide Sattin

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:88

    Content type: Research article

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  23. The last few decades have seen the rising global acknowledgment of the importance of ethics in the conduct of health research. But research ethics committees or institutional review boards (IRBs) have also bee...

    Authors: Gideon Lasco, Vincen Gregory Yu and Lia Palileo-Villanueva

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:85

    Content type: Research

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  25. The pursuit of a cure for HIV is a high priority for researchers, funding agencies, governments and people living with HIV (PLWH). To date, over 250 biomedical studies worldwide are or have been related to dis...

    Authors: Karine Dubé, John Kanazawa, Jeff Taylor, Lynda Dee, Nora Jones, Christopher Roebuck, Laurie Sylla, Michael Louella, Jan Kosmyna, David Kelly, Orbit Clanton, David Palm, Danielle M. Campbell, Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, Hursch Patel, Samuel Ndukwe…

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:83

    Content type: Review

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  26. Decision-making in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest should ideally include clinical and ethical factors. Little is known about the extent of ethical considerations and their influence on prehospital resuscitatio...

    Authors: Louise Milling, Lars Grassmé Binderup, Caroline Schaffalitzky de Muckadell, Erika Frischknecht Christensen, Annmarie Lassen, Helle Collatz Christensen, Dorthe Susanne Nielsen and Søren Mikkelsen

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:82

    Content type: Research

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  27. The advent of learning healthcare systems (LHSs) raises an important implementation challenge concerning how to request and manage consent to support secondary use of data in learning cycles, particularly rese...

    Authors: Annabelle Cumyn, Adrien Barton, Roxanne Dault, Nissrine Safa, Anne-Marie Cloutier and Jean-François Ethier

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:81

    Content type: Research

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  30. During the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, various professional ethical guidance was issued to (and for) health and social care professionals in England and Wales. Guidance can help to inform and support suc...

    Authors: Helen Smith, Peta Coulson-Smith, Mari-Rose Kennedy, Giles Birchley, Jonathan Ives and Richard Huxtable

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:78

    Content type: Research

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  31. Engagement is important within cohort studies for a number of reasons. It is argued that engaging participants within the studies they are involved in may promote their recruitment and retention within the stu...

    Authors: Cynthia A. Ochieng, Joel T. Minion, Andrew Turner, Mwenza Blell and Madeleine J. Murtagh

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:77

    Content type: Research

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  32. In the initial phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, difficult decisions had to be made on the allocation of testing resources. Similar situations can arise in future pandemics. Therefore, careful consideration of w...

    Authors: Sven Ove Hansson, Gert Helgesson and Niklas Juth

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:76

    Content type: Review

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  33. Implementing the routine consultation of patient advance directives in hospital emergency departments and emergency medical services has become essential, given that advance directives constitute the frame of ...

    Authors: Silvia Poveda-Moral, Pilar José-Maria de la Casa, Pere Sánchez-Valero, Núria Pomares-Quintana, Mireia Vicente-García and Anna Falcó-Pegueroles

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:75

    Content type: Research

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  34. Research misconduct is a global concern in biomedical science. There are no comprehensive data regarding the perception and situation of scientific misconduct among the Iranian medical faculty members. We cond...

    Authors: Erfan Shamsoddin, Zahra Torkashvand-Khah, Ahmad Sofi-Mahmudi, Leila Janani, Payam Kabiri, Ehsan Shamsi-Gooshki and Bita Mesgarpour

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:74

    Content type: Research

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  35. The COVID-19 pandemic has created ethical challenges for intensive care unit (ICU) professionals, potentially causing moral distress. This study explored the levels and causes of moral distress and the ethical...

    Authors: Moniek A. Donkers, Vincent J. H. S. Gilissen, Math J. J. M. Candel, Nathalie M. van Dijk, Hans Kling, Ruth Heijnen-Panis, Elien Pragt, Iwan van der Horst, Sebastiaan A. Pronk and Walther N. K. A. van Mook

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:73

    Content type: Research

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  36. The Life Extension Medical Decision law enacted on February 4, 2018 in South Korea was the first to consider the suspension of futile life-sustaining treatment, and its enactment caused a big controversy in Ko...

    Authors: Yu Jin Chung, Incheol Park, Junho Cho, Jin Ho Beom and Ji Eun Lee

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:72

    Content type: Research

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  37. The highly sensitive nature of genomic and associated clinical data, coupled with the consent-related vulnerabilities of children together accentuate ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI) concerning data sha...

    Authors: Vasiliki Rahimzadeh, Gillian Bartlett and Bartha Maria Knoppers

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:71

    Content type: Research article

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  38. ECMO is a particularly scarce resource during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its allocation involves ethical considerations that may be different to usual times. There is limited pre-pandemic literature on the ethical...

    Authors: Bernadine Dao, Julian Savulescu, Jacky Y. Suen, John F. Fraser and Dominic J. C. Wilkinson

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:70

    Content type: Research

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  42. Competent end-of-life care is an essential component of total health care provision, but evidence suggests that it is often deficient. This study aimed to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes about key end-of-...

    Authors: Thashi Chang, Saumya Darshani, Pavithra Manikavasagam and Carukshi Arambepola

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:66

    Content type: Research article

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  43. A different ethos with respect to the perception of medical ethics prevails in societies in transition such as those in the Arabian Peninsula, which makes it difficult to apply international principles of bioe...

    Authors: Ahmed S. Al-Busaidi, Anuradha Ganesh, Samir Al-Adawi, Yahya M. Al-Farsi, Maryam K. Al-Rawahi, Nusaiba A. Al-Mawali, Nadiya S. Al-Kharousi, Mohammed Al-Alawi and Abdullah S. Al-Mujaini

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:65

    Content type: Research article

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  44. Literature shows that middle-aged and older adults sometimes experience a wish to die. Reasons for these wishes may be complex and involve multiple factors. One important question is to what extent people with...

    Authors: Roosmarijne M. K. Kox, H. Roeline W. Pasman, Martijn Huisman, Wim Benneker and Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:64

    Content type: Research

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  45. The use of genetic test results in risk-rated insurance is a significant concern internationally, with many countries banning or restricting the use of genetic test results in underwriting. In Australia, life ...

    Authors: Jane Tiller, Aideen McInerney-Leo, Andrea Belcher, Tiffany Boughtwood, Penny Gleeson, Martin Delatycki, Kristine Barlow-Stewart, Ingrid Winship, Margaret Otlowski, Louise Keogh and Paul Lacaze

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:63

    Content type: Study protocol

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  46. In this article, we address questions regarding how people consider what they do or do not consent to and the reasons why. This article presents the findings of a citizen forum study conducted by the Universit...

    Authors: Minerva C. Rivas Velarde, Petros Tsantoulis, Claudine Burton-Jeangros, Monica Aceti, Pierre Chappuis and Samia Hurst-Majno

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:62

    Content type: Research article

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  47. Research with cerebral organoids is beginning to make significant progress in understanding the etiology of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Brain organoid models can be grown from the cells of donors with ASD....

    Authors: Andrew J. Barnhart and Kris Dierickx

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:61

    Content type: Debate

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  48. We examine the incidence of medical tribunal decisions and disciplinary actions (DAs) against healthcare professionals (HCPs). In addition, we studied whether an intimate relationship between an HCP and patien...

    Authors: Wim Rietdijk and Sander Renes

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:60

    Content type: Research article

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