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The increased use of information technology in every day health care creates vast amounts of stored health data that can be used for research. The secondary research use of routinely collected data raises ques...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:51
Published on: 15 August 2017
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The informed-consent process should be one of meaningful information exchange between researchers and study participants. One of the responsibilities of research ethics committees is to oversee appropriate inf...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:50
Published on: 14 August 2017
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Medical schools have a major impact on future doctors’ ethics and their attitudes towards cooperation with the pharmaceutical industry. From childhood, medical students who are related to a physician are expos...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:49
Published on: 10 August 2017
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The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) is an interdisciplinary protocol, aiming to ensure that dying patients receive dignified and individualized treatment and care at the end-of-life. LCP was originally developed ...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:48
Published on: 9 August 2017
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This paper proposes a refocusing of consent for clinical genetic testing, moving away from an emphasis on autonomy and information provision, towards an emphasis on the virtues of healthcare professionals seek...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:47
Published on: 8 August 2017
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Carrier screening is generally performed with the aim of identifying healthy couples at risk of having a child affected with a monogenic disorder to provide them with reproductive options. Expanded carrier scr...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:46
Published on: 1 August 2017
Erratum
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:45
Published on: 12 July 2017
The original article was published in BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:43
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The conduct of research in settings affected by disasters such as hurricanes, floods and earthquakes is challenging, particularly when infrastructures and resources were already limited pre-disaster. However, ...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:44
Published on: 28 June 2017
Debate
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 Organizatio...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:43
Published on: 26 June 2017
The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:45
Debate
Ethical issues related to comparative effectiveness research, or research that compares existing standards of care, have recently received considerable attention. In this paper we focus on how Ethics Review Commi...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:42
Published on: 19 June 2017
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There is currently no consensus from the relevant stakeholders regarding the operational and construct definitions of child assent for research. As such, the requirements for assent are often construed in diff...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:41
Published on: 9 June 2017
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This paper joins the debate over changes in the role of health professionals when applying advance directives to manage the decision-making process at the end of life care. Issues in relation to advance direct...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:40
Published on: 5 June 2017
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Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is reportedly the most effective therapy for relapsing Clostridium Difficile infection (CDI) and a potential therapeutic option for many diseases. It also poses important et...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:39
Published on: 31 May 2017
Debate
This article explores the reasons in favour of revising and extending the current 14-day statutory limit to maintaining human embryos in culture. This limit is enshrined in law in over a dozen countries, inclu...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:38
Published on: 30 May 2017
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The use of coercion is morally problematic and requires an ongoing critical reflection. We wondered if not knowing or being uncertain whether coercion is morally right or justified (i.e. experiencing moral dou...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:37
Published on: 25 May 2017
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Obtaining prospective written consent from women to participate in trials when they are experiencing an obstetric emergency is challenging. Alternative consent pathways, such as gaining verbal consent at enrol...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:36
Published on: 24 May 2017
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There is ambiguity with regard to what counts as an acceptable level of risk in clinical research in pregnant women and there is no input from stakeholders relative to such research risks. The aim of our paper...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:35
Published on: 15 May 2017
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Researchers are required to seek consent from Indigenous communities prior to conducting research but there is inadequate information about how Indigenous people understand and become fully engaged with this c...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:34
Published on: 11 May 2017
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In this article we aim to assess the ethical desirability of self-test diagnostic kits for influenza, focusing in particular on the potential benefits and challenges posed by a new, mobile phone-based tool cur...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:33
Published on: 5 May 2017
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Biobanks and biospecimen collections are becoming a primary means of delivering personalized diagnostics and tailoring individualized therapeutics. This shift towards precision medicine (PM) requires interacti...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:32
Published on: 2 May 2017
Editorial
In 2014, the editorial board of BMC Medical Ethics came together to devise sections for the journal that would (a) give structure to the journal (b) help ensure that authors’ research is matched to the most appro...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:30
Published on: 27 April 2017
Debate
Despite the growing recognition for the need to improve the health of prisoners in Canada and the need for health research, there has been little discussion of the ethical issues with regards to health researc...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:31
Published on: 27 April 2017
Debate
Consent remains a crucial, yet challenging, cornerstone of clinical practice. The ethical, legal and professional understandings of this construct have evolved away from a doctor-centred act to a patient-centr...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:29
Published on: 26 April 2017
Correspondence
The anticipation of ethical issues that may arise with the clinical use of genomic technologies is crucial to envision their future implementation in a manner sensitive to local contexts. Yet, populations in l...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:28
Published on: 11 April 2017
Debate
The EU offers a suitable milieu for the comparison and harmonisation of healthcare across different languages, cultures, and jurisdictions (albeit with a supranational legal framework), which could provide imp...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:27
Published on: 8 April 2017
